“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
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
“Life has enough torturers as it is, without you going around moonlighting as a Grand Inquisitor against yourself.” — 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
“Everything in life is nonsense. It’s just a question of perspective.” — 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
“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
“My father sighed, hiding behind the sad smile that followed him like a shadow all through his life.” — Carlos Ruiz Zafón 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
“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
After a while it occurred to me that between the covers of each of those books lay a boundless universe waiting to… — 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
“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
“Don't add on any years, you rascal. Life will see to that without your help.” — Carlos Ruiz Zafón 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
“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
“ 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
“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
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
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
“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
People tend to complicate their own lives, as if living weren't already complicated enough. — 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
