Boat Quote by Carlos Ruiz Zafón Download Open image ““The city was asleep, and the bookshop felt like a boat adrift in a sea of silence and shadows.”” — Carlos Ruiz Zafón ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Asleep Bookshop Boat Bookshop Bookshop Felt City City Asleep Description Imagery Sea Silence Silence
“The tattered lace of darkness still hung over the city, as if night were a grim bride trudging to the horizon, trailing her shadowy… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
“That's why I call this place the Haunted Bookshop. Haunted by the ghosts of the books I haven't read. Poor uneasy spirits, they walk… — Christopher Morley Copy Share Image
“It was as if the city itself was preparing for some impending catastrophe. There had always been talks of ghost and darkness here, even… — K.J. Wignall Copy Share Image
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“I loved the city. We were anonymous, and even then I had the sense that cities were yielding; that they moved over and made… — Sheridan Hay Copy Share Image
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“I no longer liked the night. The darkness was where he lied in wait, waiting for it to swallow me whole, suffocating my senses… — Devon Ashley Copy Share Image
“Beyond the castle walls, the city lay in almost total darkness. Above, the moon was pallid and misted. It was a brooding, darkling night.… — James Clavell Copy Share Image
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“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
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