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.

People tend to complicate their own lives, as if living weren't already complicated enough.

Julian once wrote that coincidences are the scars of fate. There are no coincidences, Daniel. We are puppets of our subconscious desires.

I swim against the tide because I like to annoy.

Everything is a tale, Martin. What we believe, what we know, what we remember, even what we dream. Everything is a story, a narrative, a sequence of events with characters communicating an emotional content. We only accept as true what can be narrated.

People talk too much. Humans aren't descended from monkeys. They come from parrots.

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