Memories Quotes by Carlos Ruiz Zafon

16 Memories quotes by Carlos Ruiz Zafon

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Carlos Ruiz Zafón supplies sixteen lines that feel like pages torn from a gothic novel. His evocative style paints memory as a haunting, almost tangible presence.

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Memories are worse than bullets.

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Few things are more deceptive than memories.

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I could tell you it's the heart, but what is really killing him is loneliness. Memories are worse than bullets.

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Wars have no memory, and nobody has the courage to understand them until there are no voices left to tell what happened,

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The Cemetery of Forgotten Books is a metaphor, not just for books but for ideas, for language, for knowledge, for beauty, for…

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The words with which a child's heart is poisoned, whether through malice or through ignorance, remain branded in his memory, and sooner…

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“Now he knew that any memories he might cherish during the last years of his life would be only fictions from a…

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“Sometimes, the things that are the most real only happen in one's imagination, Oscar, she said. We only remember what never really…

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“Aryami Bose's home had been closed up for years, inhabited only by books and paintings, but the spectre of thousands of memories…

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“It's the only thing that brings us together now, you see. Memories. We make so many mistakes in life, young lady, but…

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She wore an ivory-white dress and held the world in her eyes. I barely remember the priest's words or the faces of…

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Nothing feeds forgetfulness better than war… We all keep quiet and they try to convince us that what we've seen, what we've…

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I couldn't help thinking that if I, by pure chance, had found a whole universe in a single unknown book, buried in…

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“ I knew then that I would devote every minute we had left together to making her happy, to repairing the pain…

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He was a very private person, and sometimes it seemed to me that he was no longer interested in the world or…

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Once, in my father's bookshop, I heard a regular customer say that few things leave a deeper mark on a reader than…

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“I carried the trace of her lips, of her breath on my skin through streets full of faceless people escaping from offices and shops.”

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“Nekada davno, u djetinjstvu, možda is toga što sam odrastao među knjigama i knjižarima, odlučio sam da želim postati pisac i živjeti životom punim…

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“nations never see themselves clearly in the mirror, much less when war preys on their minds.”

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People might not agree with me, but I think a woman should have a feminine shape, something you can get your hands on. You,…

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“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…

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“Wise men think and speak alike.”

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“Time plays for the other team.”

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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…

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The haunting of history is ever present in Barcelona. I see cities as organisms, as living creatures. To me, Madrid is a man and…

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Waiting is the rust of the soul.

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“The main pillar of organized religion, with few exceptions, is the subjugation, repression, even the annulment of women in the group. Woman must accept…

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