"All I know is that once JuliÃ¡n told the kids in the building that he had a sister only he could see. He said she came out of mirrors as if she were made of thin air and that she lived with Satan himself in a palace at the bottom of a lake."

-- Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#Kids Quotes #Lakes Quotes #Mirrors Quotes

“Living in Cuba made me unafraid of whatever could happen to me.”
“Few people realize the profound part angelic forces play in human events.”
“To do magic, to do great magic, he has to know himself as a piece of the universe.A piece of the universe?A little piece that has all the rest of it in it. Everything outside of him is also inside of him.”

Source : Peter Straub (2015). “Shadowland”, p.53, Penguin
“She frowned at him. 'You are in love with solitude.' 'Is there a better cure for the world than solitude?”
“All hippies around now just represent complete apathy.”
“You refuse to listen. Because, like every other man, you can keep only one idea in your head at a time-usully the wrong one.”
“As security or firewall administrators, we've got basically the same concerns [as plumbers]: the size of the pipe, the contents of the pipe, making sure the correct traffic is in the correct pipes, and keeping the pipes from splitting and leaking all over the place. Of course, like plumbers, when the pipes do leak, we're the ones responsible for cleaning up the mess, and we're the ones who come up smelling awful...”
“Women don't want to win, they want a winner.”

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