Behind the Counter

Notes from behind the counter

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After a while it occurred to me that between the covers of each of these books lay a boundless universe waiting to be discovered while beyond those walls, in the outside world, people allowed life to pass by in afternoons of football and radio soaps, content to do little more than gaze at their navels.
Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind  (via how-novelistic)

(Source: thegirlandherbooks, via literatureismyutopia)

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