179 quotes found
“Those places where sadness and misery abound are favoured settings for stories of ghosts and apparitions. Calcutta has countless such stories hidden in its darkness, stories that nobody wants to ad...”
“To Senor Sempere, the best friend a book could ever have: you opened the doors to the world for me and showed me how to go through them.”
“Ignatius B. Samson, welcome to the Cemetery of Forgotten Books.”
“Without further ado I left the place, finding my route by the marks I had made on the way in. As I walked in the dark through the tunnels and tunnels of books, I could not help being overcome by a ...”
“I was no longer able to hear the music that issues from a decent piece of prose.”
“Never before had I felt trapped, so seduced and caught up in a story,' Clara explained, 'the way I did with that book. Until then, reading was just a duty, a sort of fine one had to pay teachers an...”
“1I smiled bitterly, a defeated man pitifully begging a God in whom he had never trusted.”
“Aryami Bose's home had been closed up for years, inhabited only by books and paintings, but the spectre of thousands of memories imprisoned between its walls still permeated the house.”
“... Few things leave a deeper mark on a reader than the first book that finds its way into his heart. Those first images, the echo of words we think have left behind, accompany us throughout our li...”
“Over time, loneliness gets inside you and doesn't go away.”
“Man is a moral animal abandoned in an amoral universe and condemned to a finite existence with no other prupose than to perpetuate the natural cycle of the species.”
“To truly hate is an art one learns with time.”
“Man's meanness is a fuse in search of a flame.”
“I could tell you it's the heart, but what is really killing him is loneliness. Memories are worse than bullets.”
“Now he knew that any memories he might cherish during the last years of his life would be only fictions from a biography he'd never lived.”
“In the haunted shade of the Ateneo, her hands wrote a curse on my skin that was to hound me for years.”
“I handed the photo back to her. The caretaker gazed at it as if it were a lucky charm, a return ticket to her youth.”
“Sometimes memories follow you wherever you go-you don't need to take them with you.”
“Delving into the past had unveiled a cruel lesson - that in the book of life it is perhaps best not to turn back pages; it was a path on which, whatever direction we took, we'd never be able to cho...”
“Whoever said that childhood is the happiest time of your life is a liar, or a fool.”
