He was rather clumsy and shy and...

He was rather clumsy and shy and looked as if he'd spent the last ten years of his life locked up in a library - hardly the kind of man any girl your age dreams of ...

- Carlos Ruiz Zafón

The Midnight Palace

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Keep your dreams, you will never know when you need them

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The day I die, all that was once mine will be yours, Julián, he would say. Except my dreams.

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Martin, at my age, eroticism is reduced to enjoying caramel custard and looking at widows' necks.

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Never trust girls who let themselves be touched right away. But even less those who need a priest for approval.

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

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I discovered that seventeen-year-old girls have such huge verbal energy that their brain drives them to expend it every twenty seconds. On the third day I decided I had to find her a boyfriend -- if possible, a deaf one.

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