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.
— Carlos Ruiz Zafón
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