Quotes About Mystery

Barcelona is a haunted house, Vargas. What happens is that you tourists never think of looking behind the curtain.

Tras él, alzándose en lo que creyó que era una basílica esculpida con todas las bibliotecas del mundo, se levantaba el laberinto que había visto desde la cima.

One only invites strangers.

To return from the dead is a bit like riding a bike, or unfastening a girl's bra with a single hand. It's all a question of getting the knack.

Todo crimen es como una cebolla: hay que cortar a través de muchas capas para ver qué esconde y por el camino hay que derramar unas cuantas lágrimas.

His legacy to me was his considerable repertoire of smoke and mirrors. And he asked me to let him go, because he had been born to be forgotten.

Nobody knows much about women, not even Freud, not even women themselves. But it's like electricity: you don't have to know how it works to get a shock on the fingers.

but I felt sure that The Shadow of the Wind had been waiting there for me for years, probably since before I was born.

Tajna vrijedi koliko i oni od kojih je moramo kriti.

This is a place of mystery, Daniel, a sanctuary. 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, its spirit grows and strengthens

Some things can only be seen in the dark.

Una basílica hecha de libros oculta en un palacio que no había existido nunca, un lugar al que sólo podría volver en sueños.

Andaba distraído, con la cabeza en las nubes, media sonrisa en los labios y ese aire sereno de quienes tienen el lujo de no saber cómo funciona el mundo. Nunca había visto una fotografía suya, pero supo quién era antes de verle aproximarse a la puerta de la librería.

Por ese motivo deseaba que Edmond proyectase el mayor laberinto jamás creado, una biblioteca secreta, una ciudad de libros que habría de existir oculta bajo las catacumbas de la catedral de Hagia

En particular, me interesa saber si ha mencionado alguna vez un cementerio de los libros olvidados o muertos, o algo así. Piénsalo bien antes de contestar. ¿Te ha hablado Martín de ese lugar alguna vez?

Coincidences don't get questioned. That's why they are coincidences. ~ Daniel Sempere in The Labyrinth of the Spirits

had never known the pleasure of reading, of exploring the recesses of the soul, of letting myself be carried away by imagination, beauty, and the mystery of fiction and language.

Una historia de libros, de dragones y de rosas, como manda la fecha, pero sobre todo una historia de sombras y ceniza, como mandan los tiempos…

Todo navegante que se precie tiene un iceberg en su destino.

En un universo infinito hay demasiadas cosas que se escapan a la comprensión humana

Night Serpent: They are angry at God. Me: What has God done? Night Serpent: God ended all the interesting things.

Be content feeling moved in a delightful, loving way by something mysterious and unknown, leaving you focused entirely on God, with no other thought than of him alone.

I can only describe my reaction to him as an immediate and fatal attraction, although I had no inkling then of just how fatal it would turn out to be.'1

Are you saying there's a fourth suspect?" I asked. "Someone we don't even know about?" Ashley doodled on the top of her note page. "It doesn't make sense." "Great-Grandma Olive would say that's why it's a mystery," I pointed out.