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“...normalmente se permite a los muchachos vivir en la ignorancia del verdadero rostro del mundo hasta bien entrada la juventud, pero temo que vosotros no tendréis ese dudoso privilegio.”

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The Midnight Palace

This book is a suspenseful tale that unfolds in the backdrop of colonial India. It delves into the lives of the characters amidst a web of secrets and danger, all centered around a mysterious palace at midnight. more

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Carlos Ruiz Zafón

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“I must beg your forgiveness, Father. For years I hated you for leaving me here alone. I told myself you'd got the death you deserved. That's why I never came to see you. Forgive me.' My father never liked tears. He thought a man never cried for others, only for himself. And if he did cry, he was a coward and deserved no pity. I didn't want to cry for my father and betray him yet again. 'I would have liked you to have seen my name in a book, even if you couldn't read it. I would have liked you to have been here with me, to see that your son is managing to get on in life and has been able to do things that you were never allowed to do. I would have likd to have known you, Father, and for you to have known me. I turned you into a stranger in order to forget you and now I'm the stranger.”

“Los recuerdos que uno entierra en el silencio son los que nunca dejan de perseguirle." (p. 15)" “- Fermín, no estoy seguro de lo que ha dicho. Él suspiró. - Quería decir que ya sé que en estos momentos está usted a punto de perder el control de los esfínteres y que todo esto le desborda, Daniel, pero como le ha comunicado la santa de su señora esposa, no debe usted tener miedo. Que los niños, al menos el suyo, vienen con un pan e un plan debajo del brazo, y que si uno tiene en el alma un mínimo de decencia y decoro, y algún seso en la cabeza, encuentra la manera de no arruinarle la vida y de ser un padre del que nunca tengan que avergonzarse." (p. 20)”

“Supo entonces que sobre aquella roca empezaría a construir un santuario, un cementerio de ideas e invenciones, de palabras y prodigios que crecería sobre las cenizas [...] y que algún día albergaría la mayor de las bibliotecas, aquella en la que toda obra perseguida o despreciada por la ignorancia y la malicia de los hombres iría a parar a la espera de volver a encontrar al lector que todo libro lleva dentro.”