The night I met him [he] told me that, for some reason, life usually grants us what we are not looking for. He was given — Carlos Ruiz Zafón, Marina
The night I met him [he] told me that, for some reason, life usually grants us what we are not looking for. He was given — Carlos Ruiz Zafón, Marina
The night I met him [he] told me that, for some reason, life usually grants us what we are not looking for. He was given — Carlos Ruiz Zafón, Marina
The night I met him [he] told me that, for some reason, life usually grants us what we are not looking for. He was given — Carlos Ruiz Zafón, Marina
The night I met him [he] told me that, for some reason, life usually grants us what we are not looking for. He was given — Carlos Ruiz Zafón, Marina
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The night I met him [he] told me that, for some reason, life usually grants us what we are not looking for. He was given wealth, fame, and power, yet his soul yearned only for spiritual peace so that he could silence the shadows in his heart...

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón, Marina
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