“Ignatius B. Samson, welcome to the Cemetery of Forgotten Books.”

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

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“I still remember the day my father took me to the Cemetery of Forgotten Books for the first time.”


“Tell me Ignatius B., who has broken your heart and left you so angry?”


“All true stories begin and end in a cemetery.”


“As I walked in the dark through the tunnels and tunnels of books, I could not help being overcome by a sense of sadness. I couldn't help thinking that if I, by pure chance, had found a whole universe in a single unknown book, buried in that endless necropolis, tens of thousands more would remain unexplored, forgotten forever. I felt myself surrounded by millions of abandoned pages, by worlds and souls without an owner sinking in an ocean of darkness, while the world that throbbed outside the library seemed to be losing its memory, day after day, unknowingly, feeling all the wiser the more it forgot.”


“I couldn't help thinking that if I, by pure chance, had found a whole universe in a single unknown book, buried in that endless necropolis, tens of thousands more would remain unexplored, forgotten forever. I felt myself surrounded by millions of abandoned pages, by worlds and souls without an owner sinking in an ocean of darkness, while the world that throbbed outside the library seemed to be losing its memory, day after day, unknowingly, feeling all the wiser the more it forgot.”


“In the shop we buy and sell them, but in truth books have no owner. Every book you see here has been somebody’s best friend.”