Loved it!!! I can see why it's a #Litsy favourite.
#bookworm #booklover

"But I couldn't absorb the #idea that #death could actually walk by my side, with a human face and a heart that was poisoned with #hatred..."
#CarlosRuizZafon #TheShadowoftheWind #booklover #bookworm #Litsy

"One of the pitfalls of #childhood is that one doesn't have to understand something to feel it. By the time the mind is able to comprehend what has happened, the wounds of the #heart are already too deep."
#CarlosRuizZafon #TheShadowoftheWind #booklover #bookworm #Litsy #JulianCarax

"Those first #images, the echo of #words we think we have left behind, accompany us throughout our lives and sculpt a place in our #memory to which, sooner or later - no matter how many #books we #read, how many #worlds we discover, or how much we #learn or forget - we will return."
#CarlosRuizZafon #TheShadowoftheWind #JulianCarax #booklover #bookworm

"Few things leave a deeper mark on a #reader than the first #book that finds its way into his heart."
#CarlosRuizZafon #TheShadowoftheWind #JulianCarax #booklover #bookworm

"Every #book, every volume you see here, has a #soul. The soul of the person who #wrote it and of those who #read it and lived and dreamed with it. Every time a book changes hands, every time someone runs his eyes down its pages, it's #spirit grows and strengthens."
#CarlosRuizZafon #TheShadowoftheWind #booklovers #bookworm

Starting this #Litsy favorite.... Can't wait to see what this #book is about!!
#CarlosRuizZafon #TheShadowoftheWind #booklover #bookworm

"Open your eyes and see what you can with them before they close forever."
#AnthonyDoerr #AlltheLightWeCannotSee #booklover #bookworm

"#Time is a slippery thing: lose hold of it once, and its string might sail out of your hands forever.
#AnthonyDoerr #AlltheLightWeCannotSee #bookworm #booklover

"It's as if the city has become a #library of #books in an unknown #language, the houses great shelves of illegible volumes, the lamps all extinguished."
#AnthonyDoerr #AlltheLightWeCannotSee #bookworm #booklover

"Silence is the fruit of the occupation; it hangs in branches, sleeps from.the gutters."
#AnthonyDoerr #AlltheLightWeCannotSee #bookworm #booklover

"You know the greatest lesson of history? It's that history is whatever the victors say it is. That's the lesson. Whoever wins, that's who decides the history. We act in our own self-interest. Of course we do. Name me a person or a nation who does not. The trick is figuring out where your interests are."
#AlltheLightWeCannotSee #AnthonyDoerr #littens #bookworm #booklover

"As if each antenna relay were a candle flame and a pair of fingers came along and pinched it out."
#AnthonyDoerr #AlltheLightWeCannotSee #bookworm #booklover

"Some people think of God as a white man, which is an idea the missionaries brought with them all those years ago and which seems to have stuck in people's mind. I do not think so, because there is no difference between white men and black men; we were all the same; we were just people.
And God was here anyway, before the missionaries came."
#littens #AlexanderMcCallSmith #MmaRamotswe #detectiveagency

An amazing read! The ending was slightly complicated and fast, that I had to read some parts twice to understand what was going on, but in a good way.

"That is how small the life of an adolescent is. A persistent father can get to all of them."
#littens #ManuJoseph #IllicitHappinessofOtherPeople #bookworm #booklover

"We were blank and empty iliads.
We were odysseys there for the taking.
She'd float in and out on the images."
#littens #Homer #BridgeofClay #markuszusak #bookworm #booklover

"It was a slow and steady vanishing act. He left us like that, in increments."
#markuszusak #littens #BridgeofClay #bookworm #booklover

"And yet these events have formed Gogol, shaped him, determined who he is. They were the things for which it was impossible to prepare but which one spent a lifetime looking back at, trying to accept, interpret, comprehend. Things that should never have happened, that seemed out of place and wrong, these were what prevailed, what endured, in the end."
#littens #jhumpalahiri #bookworm #booklover

"He realises that she has never wishes she were anyone other than herself, raised in any other place, in any other way. This, in his opinion, is the biggest difference between them".
#thenamesake #jhumpalahiri #littens

"Returning and being let in:
Two very different things."