It's up to you how you waste your time and money. I'm staying here to read: life's too short. — 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
“The night I met him Mijail told me that, for some reason, life usually grants us what we are not looking for.” — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
“There is nothing in the path of life that we don't already know before we start. Nothing is learned; it is simply… — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
“Making money isn't hard in itself,what's hard is to earn it doing something worth devoting your life to” — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
“It was my twenty-fourth birthday, and I knew that the best part of my life was already behind me.” — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
“Don't add on any years, you rascal. Life will see to that without your help.” — Carlos Ruiz Zafón 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
For some reason, I never felt the need to have kids. My wife feels the same. We don't feel a void. I… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
“All the bad things you do in life come back to you, (David). And I've done a lot of bad things. A… — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
Every work of art is aggressive, Isabella. And every artist's life is a small war or a large one, beginning with oneself… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
“He was rather clumsy and shy and looked as if he'd spent the last ten years of his life locked up in… — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
With women, the best part is the discovery. There's nothing like the first time, nothing. You don't know what life is until… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
“It's the only thing that brings us together now, you see. Memories. We make so many mistakes in life, young lady, but… — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
Man is a moral animal abandoned in an amoral universe and condemned to a finite existence with no other prupose than to… — 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
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
“It is part of our nature to survive. Faith is an instinctive response to the aspects of existence that we cannot explain… — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
It is part of our nature to survive. Faith is an instinctive response to aspects of existence that we cannot explain by… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
“the problem is that man is a moral animal abandoned in an amoral universe and condemned to a finite existence with no… — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
People tend to complicate their own lives, as if living weren't already complicated enough. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
Deep down we've never been who we think we once were, and we only remember what never happened. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
“Life isn't like a novel, you know. In life you have to take sides. And it's clear which side you've chosen.” — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
“Legions of men, butchered for the greater glory and the profit margins of bankers, chancellors, generals, stockbrokers, and other fathers of the… — Carlos Ruiz Zafón 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 Zafon Copy Share Image
Delving into the past had unveiled a cruel lesson - that in the book of life it is perhaps best not to… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
They had parted as boys, and now life presented one of them with a fugitive and the other with a dying man.… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
“I couldn't help thinking that if I, by pure chance, had found a whole universe in a single unknown book, buried in… — 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
