Where he had failed, I would triumph. Where he had lost his way, I would find the path out of the labyrinth.

Making money isn't hard in itself... What's hard is to earn it doing something worth devoting one's life to.

The Cemetery of Forgotten Books is like the greatest, most fantastic library you could ever imagine. Its a labyrinth of books with tunnels, bridges, arches, secret sections - and its hidden inside an old palace in the old city of Barcelona.

Deep down we've never been who we think we once were, and we only remember what never happened.

Don Basilio was a forbidding-looking man with a bushy mustache who did not suffer fools and who subscribed to the theory that the liberal use of adverbs and adjectives was the mark of a pervert or someone with a vitamin deficiency.

The rain was still crashing down, angrily machine-gunning the large windows; it poured through the gutters up in the tower and funneled along the flat roof, sounding like footsteps on the ceiling.

There are worse prisons than words.