Carlos Ruiz Zafón

Carlos Ruiz Zafón

"We all give up great expectations along the way."
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"We all give up great expectations along the way."
Carlos Ruiz Zafón The Angel's Game
"that as long as we are being remembered, we remain alive."
Carlos Ruiz Zafón
"There are few reasons for telling the truth, but for lying the number is infinite."
Carlos Ruiz Zafón The Shadow of the Wind
"Every book, every volume you see here, has a soul. The soul of the person who wrote it and of those who read it and lived and dreamed with it. Every time a book changes hands, every time someone runs his eyes down its pages, its spirit grows and strengthens."
Carlos Ruiz Zafón The Shadow of the Wind
"If you really want to possess a woman, you must think like her, and the first thing to do is win over her soul. The rest, that sweet, soft wrapping that steals away your senses and your virtue, is a bonus."
Carlos Ruiz Zafón The Shadow of the Wind
"Some like to believe it's the book that chooses the person."
Carlos Ruiz Zafón
"A story is a letter that the author writes to himself, to tell himself things that he would be unable to discover otherwise."
Carlos Ruiz Zafón The Shadow of the Wind
"In the shop we buy and sell them, but in truth books have no owner. Every book you see here has been somebody’s best friend."
Carlos Ruiz Zafón The Shadow of the Wind
"I was raised among books, making invisible friends in pages that seemed cast from dust and whose smell I carry on my hands to this day."
Carlos Ruiz Zafón The Shadow of the Wind
"Bea says that the art of reading is slowly dying, that it's an intimate ritual, that a book is a mirror that offers us only what we already carry inside us, that when we read, we do it with all our heart and mind, and great readers are becoming more scarce by the day."
Carlos Ruiz Zafón The Shadow of the Wind
"One mustn't dream of one's future; one must earn it."
Carlos Ruiz Zafón The Prisoner of Heaven
"Paris is the only city in the world where starving to death is still considered an art."
Carlos Ruiz Zafón The Shadow of the Wind
"“Nothing important is learned; it is simply remembered.”"
Carlos Ruiz Zafón The Angel's Game
"Mention the gothic, and many readers will probably picture gloomy castles and an assortment of sinister Victoriana. However, the truth is that the gothic genre has continued to flourish and evolve since the days of Bram Stoker, producing some of its most interesting and accomplished examples in the 20th century - in literature, film and beyond."
Carlos Ruiz Zafón
"The Cemetery of Forgotten Books is a metaphor, not just for books but for ideas, for language, for knowledge, for beauty, for all the things that make us human, for collecting memory."
Carlos Ruiz Zafón
"The haunting of history is ever present in Barcelona. I see cities as organisms, as living creatures. To me, Madrid is a man and Barcelona is a woman. And it's a woman who's extremely vain."
Carlos Ruiz Zafón
"Barcelona is a very old city in which you can feel the weight of history it is haunted by history. You cannot walk around it without perceiving it."
Carlos Ruiz Zafón
"Her tiny and organized handwriting reminded me of the tidiness of her desk, as if she'd wanted to find in words the peace and safety that life hadn't wanted to grant her."
Carlos Ruiz Zafón
"- Boys my age are boring. They have nothing to say and half of them seem like complete idiots. I was going to say that they didn't improve with age but didn't want to spoil her illusions."
Carlos Ruiz Zafón
"Everyone wanted to see [him] fall so they could devour his remains. As is usually the case, the army of sycophants had turned into a horde of hungry hyenas"
Carlos Ruiz Zafón
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