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
-Do you think it's dirty money? -All money is dirty. If it were clean nobody would want it. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share
People talk too much. Humans aren't descended from monkeys. They come from parrots. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
“People talk too much, humans aren't descended from monkeys, they're descended from parrots.” — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
It was a well-known fact that the richness of buttery foods led to the moral ruin and confusion of the intellect. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
Making money isn't hard in itself... What's hard is to earn it doing something worth devoting one's life to. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon 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
Money is like any other virus: once it has rotted the soul of the person who houses it, it sets off in… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
“Making money isn't hard in itself,' he complained. 'What's hard is to earn it doing something worth devoting one's life to.” — 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 labyrinth of a story with four different points of entry. But what interested me was creating something that would rearrange itself every time you read one of the other books. So depending on which order you… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share
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 the role of an ethereal, passive, and maternal presence, never of authority or independence, or she will have to suffer the consequences. She might have a place of honor in the symbolism, but not in the… — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share
