“you don't know what thirst is until you drink for the first time” — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
Time has taught me not to lose hope, yet not to trust too much in hope either. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
“future could be read much more clearly in the streets, factories, and barracks than in the morning press.” — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
There are times and places where not to be anyone is more honourable than to be someone. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
“..but in good time you'll see that what matters isn't what one gives but what one gives up.” — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
I still remember the day my father took me to the Cemetery of Forgotten Books for the first time. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon 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
In Los Angeles you get the sense sometimes that there's a mysterious patrol at night: when the streets are empty and everyone's… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
Time goes faster the more hollow it is. Lives with no meaning go straight past you, like trains that don’t stop at… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
“You cannot understand such things right now, because you're young. But in good time you'll see that sometimes what matters isn't what… — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
“...the TV set. Some predicted that this peculiar contraption was going to change our lives forever and turn us all into creatures… — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
In Los Angeles you get the sense sometimes that there's a mysterious patrol at night: when the streets are empty and everyone's… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
One of the pitfalls of childhood is that one doesn't have to understand something to feel it. By the time the mind… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
“Those times, against all expectations, were turning out to be good times. Then he felt afraid, because he knew they couldn't last… — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
“Every morning she went to the eight o'clock service at the basilica of Santa María del Mar, and she confessed no less… — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
“That world seemed to have vanished, but for a long time the image I had of my father, which I still preserve… — Carlos Ruiz Zafón 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
“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
