Carlos Ruiz Zafon

He was a very private person, and sometimes it seemed to me that he was no longer interested in the world or in other people. . . I got the feeling that Julián was living in the past, locked in his memories. Julián lived within himself, for his books and inside them - a comfortable prison of his own design. " "You say this as if you envied him. " "There are worse prisons than words.