Carlos Ruiz Zafon - It might have been that notion, or just chance,

It might have been that notion, or just chance, or its more flamboyant relative, destiny.

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Zafón, Carlos Ruiz. The Shadow of the Wind. Translated by Lucia Graves, Penguin Books, 2005.

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