“The night I met him Mijail told me that, for some reason, life usually grants us what we are not looking for.” — 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
Man is a moral animal abandoned in an amoral universe and condemned to a finite existence with no other prupose than to… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
“That will be the motto on which we'll build our coexistence: Whatever I say.” — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
“It was my twenty-fourth birthday, and I knew that the best part of my life was already behind me.” — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
“Age makes you notice certain things. For example, I now know that a man’s life is broadly divided into three periods. During… — 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
“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
“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
“It is part of our nature to survive. Faith is an instinctive response to the aspects of existence that we cannot explain… — 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
“-No se puede entender nada de la vida hasta que uno no entiende la muerte-añadió Marina” — 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
“Dvije stvari u životu ne možeš birati, Bene.Prva su neprijatelji. Druga, obitelj. Katkada je teško razabrati razliku među njima, ali vrijeme pokaže… — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
“Making money isn't hard in itself,what's hard is to earn it doing something worth devoting your life to” — 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
“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
