“This place is a mystery. A sanctuary. Every book, every volume you see, has a soul. The soul of the person who… — 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
I spend a lot of time in L.A., and when it rains there you get the entire rainfall for the year in… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
“Those times, against all expectations, were turning out to be good times. Then he felt afraid, because he knew they couldn't last… — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
Time goes faster the more hollow it is. Lives with no meaning go straight past you, like trains that don’t stop at… — 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
“You cannot understand such things right now, because you're young. But in good time you'll see that sometimes what matters isn't what… — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
“You seem very sure of yourself, Daniel.' I, who was never even sure what the time was, nodded with the conviction of… — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
“I imagined Julián Caraxat my age, holding that image in his hands, perhaps in the shade of the same tree that now… — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
Time has taught me not to lose hope, yet not to trust too much in hope either. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
“Every morning she went to the eight o'clock service at the basilica of Santa María del Mar, and she confessed no less… — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
“...the TV set. Some predicted that this peculiar contraption was going to change our lives forever and turn us all into creatures… — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
“Our body begins to destroy itself from the moment it is born. We are fragile. We’re creatures of passage. All that is… — 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
...until that moment I had not understood that this was a story about lonely people, about absence and loss, and that that… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon 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
In Los Angeles you get the sense sometimes that there's a mysterious patrol at night: when the streets are empty and everyone's… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
“As I walked in the dark through the tunnels and tunnels of books, I could not help being overcome by a sense… — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
“One mustn’t dream of one’s future; one must earn it. And you have no future, Salgado. Neither you, nor a country that… — 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
