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
“That will be the motto on which we'll build our coexistence: Whatever I say.” — Carlos Ruiz Zafón 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
“My father sighed, hiding behind the sad smile that followed him like a shadow all through his life.” — Carlos Ruiz Zafón 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
“-No se puede entender nada de la vida hasta que uno no entiende la muerte-añadió Marina” — Carlos Ruiz Zafón 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
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
“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
“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
If you think you’re the only person for whom life is painful, you’re wrong. And if you don’t mind letting yourself die… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
“Senor Sempere believed that God lives, to a smaller or greater extent, in books, and that is why he devoted his life… — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
“Bea is the only good thing I've ever done in my life,' he said. 'Take care of her for me.' My father… — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
Driven by a wish to save Tomás from a life of penury and misunderstanding, Fermin had decided that he needed to develop… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon 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
A big success can be very confusing if it comes too early in your life. When you are young, you are more… — 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
“ 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
“I believe that nothing happens by chance. Deep down, things have their secret plan, even though we don't understand it.” — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
Most of us have the good or bad fortune of seeing our lives fall apart so slowly we barely notice. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
“A good friend once told me that problems are like cockroaches. If you bring them out into the light, they get scared… — 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
“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
I quarreled with every word, every phrase and expression, every image and letter as if they were the last I was ever… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
“Life on the streets is short. People look at you in disgust, even the ones who give you alms, but this is… — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
“Don't say another word. If you think you're the only person for whom life is painful, you're wrong. And if you don't… — 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 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
