Quotes from Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Czasami najtrudniej jest uwierzy? w prawd?

One loves truly only once in a lifetime, Julián, even if one isn't aware of it.

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 of everything, and a lousy joke at that.

Why should we reduce faith to an act of rejection and blind obedience? Is it not possible to believe in values of acceptance, of harmony?

Madurar no es más que el proceso de descubrir que todo aquello que creías cuando eras joven, es falso y que, a su vez, todo cuanto rechazabas creer en tu juventud resulta ser cierto ¿Cuándo piensas madurar tu?

Had I paused to reflect, I would have understood that my devotion to [her] brought me no more than suffering. Perhaps for that very reason, I adored her all the more, because of the eternal human stupidity of pursuing those who hurt us the most.

el dinero no tiene importancia, a menos que se carezca de él.

To him, nature was a merciless beast that fed on its young without caring about the fate of the beings it harboured.

Al oír tamañas blasfemias, la Bernarda se santiguaba por quintuplicado. Más tarde, por la noche, decía una oración extra por el alma poluta del señor Barceló, que tenía buen corazón, pero a quien de tanto leer se le habían podrido los sesos, como a don Quijote.

Había permanecido en la sombra, esperando, sin prisa, a que alguna fuerza lo trajese de nuevo al mundo de los vivos. Y nada tiene tanta fuerza como una promesa...

Este mundo no se morirá de una bomba atómica como dicen los diarios , se morirá de risa, de banalidad, haciendo un chiste de todo, y además un chiste malo.

Inimene ei tea, kui palju ahnust tema südames peitub, enne kui on kuulnud hõbeda meelitavat kõlinat oma taskutes.

Boquiabierto, avancé despacio hacia aquel castillo tramado con todos los libros jamás escritos.

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

When peace finally came, it smelled of the sort of peace that haunts prisons and cemeteries, a shroud of silence and shame that rots one's soul and never goes away. There were no guiltless hands or innocent looks.

I don't belong to any side,' Fermín replied. 'What's more, I think flags are nothing but painted rags that represent rancid emotions. Just seeing someone wrapped up in one of them, spewing out hymns, badges and speeches, gives me the runs. I've always thought that anyone who needs to join a herd so badly must be a bit of a sheep himself.

And how do you see me?" "Like a mystery." "That's the strangest compliment anyone has ever paid me." "It's not a compliment. It's a threat." "What do you mean?" "Mysteries must be solved, one must find out what they hide." "You might be disappointed when you see what's inside." "I might be surprised. And you, too.

A la hora de mentir lo que hay que tener en cuenta no es la plausibilidad del embuste, sino la codicia, vanidad y estupidez del destinatario. Uno nunca miente a la gente; se mienten a ellos mismos. Un buen mentiroso les da a los bobos lo que quieren oír. Ese es el secreto. —Eso

Uno no sabe lo que es la vida hasta que desnuda por primera vez a una mujer. Botón a botón, como si pelase usted un boniato bien calentito en una noche de invierno.

All money is dirty. If it were clean nobody would want it.

He would stare at you without saying a word, and you wouldn't know what he was thinking, and so, like an idiot, you'd tell him things it would have been better to keep to yourself.

The very thought that the poor creature could still hold the slightest bit of affection for him or for the world seem too cruel.

La verad nunca es perfecta y nunca cuada con todas las expectativas. La verdad siempre plantea dudad y preguntas. Solo la mentira es creíble al cien por cien, porque no tiene que justificar la realidad sino sencillamente decirnos lo que queremos oír.

Brilhante discurso - comentou Martín. - Histórico. Cada vez que esse homem fala, a história do pensamento no ocidente realiza uma revolução copernicana.