Carlos Ruiz Zafón citáty

“Making money isn't hard in itself… What's hard is to earn it doing something worth devoting one's life to.”

“Do you know the best thing about broken hearts? They can only really break once the rest is just scratches.”

“Poetry is written with tears, fiction with blood, and history with invisible ink.”

“Fools talk, cowards are silent, wise men listen.”

“The moment you stop to think about whether you love someone, you've already stopped loving that person forever.”

“Memories are worse than bullets.”

“Never trust anyone, Daniel, especially the people you admire. Those are the ones who will make you suffer the worst blows.”

“I don't suppose you have many friends. Neither do I. I don't trust people who say they have a lot of friends. It's a sure sign that they don't really know anyone.”

“In the shop we buy and sell them, but in truth books have no owner. Every book you see here has been somebody’s best friend.”

“But in good time you'll see that sometimes what matters isn't what one gives but what one gives up.”

“Presents are made for the pleasure of who gives them, not the merits of who receives them.”

“I was raised among books, making invisible friends in pages that seemed cast from dust and whose smell I carry on my hands to this day.”

“Sometimes we think people are like lottery tickets, that they're there to make our most absurd dreams come true.”

“that as long as we are being remembered, we remain alive.”

“Silence makes idiots seem wise even for a minute.”

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

“To truly hate is an art one learns with time.”

“Every time a book changes hands, every time someone runs his eyes down its pages, its spirit grows and strengthens.”

“There's no such thing as dead languages, only dormant minds.”

“Time goes faster the more hollow it is. Lives with no meaning go straight past you, like trains that don’t stop at your station.”

“One of the pitfalls of childhood is that one doesn't have to understand something to feel it. By the time the mind is able to comprehend what has happened, the wounds of the heart are already too deep.”

“Few things leave a deeper mark on a reader than the first book that finds its way into his heart. Those first images, the echo of words we think we have left behind, accompany us throughout our lives and sculpt a palace in our memory to which, sooner or later--no matter how many books we read, how many worlds we discover or how much we learn or forget--we will return.”

“We spend a good part of our lives dreaming, especially when we're awake.”

“If you really want to possess a woman, you must think like her, and the first thing to do is win over her soul. The rest, that sweet, soft wrapping that steals away your senses and your virtue, is a bonus.”

“There are no second chances in life, except to feel remorse.”

“Most of us have the good or bad fortune of seeing our lives fall apart so slowly we barely notice.”

“I swim against the tide because I like to annoy.”

“It’s a story of love, of hatred, and of the dreams that live in the shadow of the wind.”

“Over time, loneliness gets inside you and doesn't go away.”