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
As I walked, I ran my fingers along the spines of hundreds of books. I let myself be imbued with the smell,… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
I looked up towards the immensity of the labyrinth. "How does one choose a single book among so many?" Isaac shrugged his… — 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
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
“To Senor Sempere, the best friend a book could ever have: you opened the doors to the world for me and showed… — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
“Never before had I felt trapped, so seduced and caught up in a story,' Clara explained, 'the way I did with that… — 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
In fact I don't think of literature, or music, or any art form as having a nationality. Where you're born is simply… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
“Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you,” answered Julián.” — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
In the shop we buy and sell them, but in truth books have no owner. Every book you see here has been… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
Once, in my father's bookshop, I heard a regular customer say that few things leave a deeper mark on a reader than… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
I was raised among books, making invisible friends in pages that seemed cast from dust and whose smell I carry on my… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
Every book, every volume you see here, has a soul. The soul of the person who wrote it and of those who… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
He was a very private person, and sometimes it seemed to me that he was no longer interested in the world or… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
I would like to save all books, those that are banned, those that are burned, or forgotten with contempt by the mandarins… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
A book is a mirror that offers us only what we already carry inside us. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
“Books are like mirrors , you only see in them what you already have inside you” — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
I leafed through the pages, inhaling the enchanted scent of promise that comes with all new books, and stopped to read the… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
Books hold no passports. There's only one true literary tradition: the human. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
It's hard work, writing, you know. Honestly, a fight every day against your own limitations. You have to squeeze books out of… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
“Never before had I felt trapped, seduced, and caught up in a story,' Clara explained, 'the way I did with that book.… — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
There are two things that I cannot live without: music and books. Caffeine isn't dignified enough to qualify. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
“Well, this is a story about books.” “About books?” “About accursed books, about the man who wrote them, about a character who… — Carlos Ruiz Zafón 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
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“nations never see themselves clearly in the mirror, much less when war preys on their minds.” — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
