Carlos Ruiz Zafon Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Carlos Ruiz Zafon Famous Quotes & Sayings
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Money is like any other virus: once it has rotted the soul of the person who houses it, it sets off in search of new blood.
It was a magnificent day; the skies were electric blue, and a crystal breeze carried the cool scent of autumn and the sea.
How many lost souls do You need, Lord, to satisfy Your hunger? the hatter asked. God, in His infinite silence, looked at him without blinking.
I pointed to her engagement ring. "I don't know who the idiot is, but I hope he knows he's the luckiest man in the world.
Julian spoke with the clear, unequivocal lucidity of madmen who have escaped the hypocrisy of having to abide by a reality that makes no sense.
It seems that in the advanced stages of stupidity, a lack of ideas is compensated for by an excess of ideologies.
Sometimes I'd catch him looking at me with a gentle smile, as if the very sight of my presence were his greatest treasure.
But I felt sure that The Shadow of the Wind had been waiting there for me for years, probably since before I was born.
As he took them in his arms, the crying of the babies permeated the night like a trail of blood calling out to a predator.
I can't die yet, doctor. Not yet. I have things to do. Afterwords I'll have a whole lifetime in which to die.
Afterwards, once you lost all hope, time began to go faster and the senseless days deadened your soul.
The moment you stop to think about whether you love someone, you've already stopped loving that person forever.
In the haunted shade of the Ateneo, her hands wrote a curse on my skin that was to hound me for years.
All the bad things you do in life come back to you, (David). And I've done a lot of bad things. A lot. But I've paid the price. (The Angel's Game)
I imagine some people, like some toys, are born defective - which I suppose makes us all broken toys, don't you think?
Don't be afraid of being scared. To be afraid is a sign of common sense. Only complete idiots are not afraid of anything.
There was no more good or evil in this world than we imagine there to be, either out of greed or out of innocence. Or sometimes madness.
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.
Before I know it, I'll be thirty and I'll realise that every day I look less like the person I wanted to be when I was fifteen.
Men, as is more than evident, respond, contrariwise, to the dictates of their genital and digestive organs.
Life has enough torturers as it is, without you going around moonlighting as a Grand Inquisitor against yourself.
I handed the photo back to her. The caretaker gazed at it as if it were a lucky charm, a return ticket to her youth.
Blaming TV as an abstract entity is nonsensical. It's our hand on the remote. There's a world out there outside the tube.
Every book has a soul, the soul of the person who wrote it and the soul of those who read it and dream about it.
The same thing that had happened with the flowers was happening with my longing: once I held it in my hands, I didn't know where to put it.
I think today will be the day. Today our luck will change,' I proclaimed on the wings of the first coffee of the day, pure optimism in a liquid state.
Youth is like a fickle girlfriend. We can't understand or value her until she goes off with someone else, never to return.
The most despicable humans are the ones who always feel virtuous and look down on the rest of the world.
You should get more sun and fresh air. The other day I read in the paper that vitamin D increases our faith in fellow humans.
She doesn't have anyone. For reasons we cannot comprehend, the Good Lord doesn't always reward us during our lifetime.
To Senor Sempere, the best friend a book could ever have: you opened the doors to the world for me and showed me how to go through them.
Literature, at least good literature, is science tempered with the blood of art. Like architecture or music.
Time goes faster the more hollow it is. Lives with no meaning go straight past you, like trains that don't stop at your station.