“Everything in life is nonsense. It’s just a question of perspective.” — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
“Only three or four things are worth living for; the rest is shit.” — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
Whoever said that childhood is the happiest time of your life is a liar, or a fool. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
“My father sighed, hiding behind the sad smile that followed him like a shadow all through his life.” — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
“I believe that nothing happens by chance. Deep down, things have their secret plan, even though we don't understand it.” — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
“-No se puede entender nada de la vida hasta que uno no entiende la muerte-añadió Marina” — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
“A good friend once told me that problems are like cockroaches. If you bring them out into the light, they get scared… — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
Most of us have the good or bad fortune of seeing our lives fall apart so slowly we barely notice. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
“Now he knew that any memories he might cherish during the last years of his life would be only fictions from a… — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
“Youth is like a fickle girlfriend. We can't understand or value her until she goes off with someone else, never to return.” — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
“Life on the streets is short. People look at you in disgust, even the ones who give you alms, but this is… — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
“I would have preferred someone else to have been in charge of rescuing this story, but once again life has taught me… — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
I quarreled with every word, every phrase and expression, every image and letter as if they were the last I was ever… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
“Don't say another word. If you think you're the only person for whom life is painful, you're wrong. And if you don't… — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
If you think you’re the only person for whom life is painful, you’re wrong. And if you don’t mind letting yourself die… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
“What the flower vendor interpreted as 'pretty nasty' was only the intensity that comes to those who, better late than never, have… — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
There are two things in life you cannot choose. The first is your enemies; the second your family. Sometimes the difference between… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
“Senor Sempere believed that God lives, to a smaller or greater extent, in books, and that is why he devoted his life… — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
“When I saw my friend kissing the woman he loved it occurred to me that this moment, this instant stolen from time… — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
A big success can be very confusing if it comes too early in your life. When you are young, you are more… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
Life had taught her that we all require big and small lies in order to survive, just as much as we need… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
Driven by a wish to save Tomás from a life of penury and misunderstanding, Fermin had decided that he needed to develop… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
“ I knew then that I would devote every minute we had left together to making her happy, to repairing the pain… — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
All interpretation or observation of reality is necessarily fiction. In this case, the problem is that man is a moral animal abandoned… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
I see cities as organisms, as living creatures. To me Madrid is a man and Barcelona is a woman. And it's a… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
“That book taught me that by reading, I could live more intensely. It could give me back the sight I had lost.… — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
“It's possible, and I stress possible, that such a moment may never come: you may not fall in love, you may not… — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
“Envy is the religion of the mediocre. It comforts them, it soothes their worries, and finally it rots their souls, allowing them… — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
“Age makes you notice certain things. For example, I now know that a man’s life is broadly divided into three periods. During… — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
“Our world will not die as a result of the bomb, as the papers say, it will die of laughter, of banality, of making a joke… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share
“I carried the trace of her lips, of her breath on my skin through streets full of faceless people escaping from offices and shops.” — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share
“Nekada davno, u djetinjstvu, možda is toga što sam odrastao među knjigama i knjižarima, odlučio sam da želim postati pisac i živjeti životom punim… — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share
“nations never see themselves clearly in the mirror, much less when war preys on their minds.” — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share
People might not agree with me, but I think a woman should have a feminine shape, something you can get your hands on. You,… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share
“But I couldn't absorb the idea that death could actually walk by my side, with a human face and a heart that was poisoned… — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share
Once I'd worked out that I couldn't possibly expect people to enjoy a monstrous, 3000-page book, I realised I could in fact create a… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share
The haunting of history is ever present in Barcelona. I see cities as organisms, as living creatures. To me, Madrid is a man and… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share
“The main pillar of organized religion, with few exceptions, is the subjugation, repression, even the annulment of women in the group. Woman must accept… — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share
“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… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share
“Darwin was a dreamer, I can assure you. No evolution or anything of the sort. For every one who can reason, I have to… — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share
