But in good time you'll see that sometimes what matters isn't what one gives but what one gives up. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon 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
“It wasn't worth wasting your time trying to change the world; it was enough not to let the world change you.” — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
The moment you stop to think about whether you love someone, you've already stopped loving that person forever. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
“There are times and places where not to be anyone is more honorable than to be someone.” — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
“By the time the mind is able to comprehend what has happened, the wounds of the heart are already too deep.” — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
Once you lost all hope, time began to go faster and the senseless days deadened your soul. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
Every time a book changes hands, every time someone runs his eyes down its pages, its spirit grows and strengthens. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
“Now he understood. He had dreamed about her countless times, on that same staircase, with that same blue dress and that same… — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
“You seem very sure of yourself, Daniel.' I, who was never even sure what the time was, nodded with the conviction of… — 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
“Max had once read in one of his father's books that some childhood images become engraved in the mind like photographs, like… — 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
“Our body begins to destroy itself from the moment it is born. We are fragile. We’re creatures of passage. All that is… — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
Whenever it poured like this, Max felt as if time was pausing. It was like a cease-fire during which you could stop… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
“Someone once said that the moment you stop to think about whether you love someone, you've already stopped loving that person forever.” — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
“This place is a mystery. A sanctuary. Every book, every volume you see, has a soul. The soul of the person who… — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
I spend a lot of time in L.A., and when it rains there you get the entire rainfall for the year in… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
“One mustn’t dream of one’s future; one must earn it. And you have no future, Salgado. Neither you, nor a country that… — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
“and I kissed his forehead, as if by doing so I could protect him from the invisible threads that kept him away… — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
...until that moment I had not understood that this was a story about lonely people, about absence and loss, and that that… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
“I imagined Julián Caraxat my age, holding that image in his hands, perhaps in the shade of the same tree that now… — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
“I leaned over to cover him with the blanket he had been promising to give away to charity for years, and I… — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
“Wars have no memory, and nobody has the courage to understand them until there are no voices left to tell what happened,… — 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
“Senor sempere and I were friends for almost forty years, and in all that time we spoke about God and the mysteries… — 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
A writer never forgets the first time he accepted a few coins or a word of praise in exchange for a story.… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
“As I walked in the dark through the tunnels and tunnels of books, I could not help being overcome by a sense… — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
“Afterwards, once you lost all hope, time began to go faster and the senseless days deadened your soul.” — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
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
“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
