“So long as we are being remembered, we remain alive.” (446). Despite reading this line countless of times, it still strikes me with equal amounts of poignancy and brutal truth. Zafón writes about his young protagonist, Daniel Sempere, who receives a memoir from his late friend named Nuria Monfort. As I read Nuria’s memoir to Daniel, I felt a sharp pang of deep sorrow for her character. Monfort recalls her life from the moment she met Julian Carax, an author that Daniel desperately wants to track down. Her memoir recounts details of her brief moments with Julian in Paris. Nuria’s seemingly innocent stay in Paris quickly turned into a romantic affair that was simply, an affair. Her infatuation for Julian was never reciprocated, which deeply