Quotes from Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Fermín Romero de Torres, currently unemployed. Pleased to meet you.

What killed him was his loyalty to people who, when their time came, betrayed him. Never trust anyone, Daniel, especially the people you admire. Those are the ones who will make you suffer the worst blows.

Primul pas pentru a deveni un credincios p?timaÈ™ este teama. Teama c? ne vom pierde identitatea, viaÈ›a, condiÈ›ia sau convingerile. Teama este praful de puÈ™c?, iar ura este fitilul. Dogma, în ultim? instan??, e doar un chibrit aprins.

Significa que si los hombres tuviesen el cerebro la mitad de grande que la bocaza, por no decir otra cosa, este mundo funcionaría mucho mejor.

I know you men believe that the size of your stubbornness should match the size of your privates." "Did you also read that in your book?" "No, that wisdom's homemade.

In verlorenen Schlachten besteht die letzte Verteidigung in der Gleichgültigkeit.

This phenomenon, which biology shows us is common to any social group, soon transforms the doctrine into a means of achieving control and political power. Divisions, wars and break-ups become inevitable. Sooner or later, the word becomes flesh and the flesh bleeds.

el único pecado que no se perdona en España es el de no tomar bando y resistirse a unirse a un rebaño u otro. Y donde hay rebaños de borregos siempre aparecen lobos hambrientos.

denn Applaus hat nur einen Wert, wenn er im gerechten Moment eintrifft. Als welke Spätblume ist er nichts als Beleidigung und Schimpf.

Sempere, old man," proclaimed Barceló when he saw my father come in. "Hail

Éste es un mundo de sombras, y la magia es un bien escaso.

WITH HIS FIRST WAGES, FERMÍN ROMERO DE TORRES BOUGHT HIMSELF A glamorous hat and a pair of galoshes and insisted on treating me and my father to a dish of bull's tail

Julián me había dicho alguna vez que un relato es una carta que el autor se escribe a sí mismo para contarse cosas que de otro modo no podría averiguar. Hacía tiempo que Julián se preguntaba si había perdido la razón. ¿Sabe el loco que está loco?

after the classics what he most enjoyed were tales of crime, boudoir intrigue, and questionable conduct.

Everything on that page spoke of another time: the strokes that depended on the ink pot, the words scratched on the thick paper by the tip of the nib, the rugged feel of the paper.

Aquí, cuando las personas pierden el juicio, que es a menudo, son capaces de pegarse un tiro en el pie si creen que así dejarán cojo al vecino.

Your mother would have wished you to have a full life devoid of hatred and resentment ....... Forget everything you might have heard about a past that no longer exists, clean your heart of anger and live the life your mother wanted to give you, always looking ahead.

You know what kids are like. Deep down, God has filled them with goodness, but they repeat what they hear at home.

Knjiga je pismo koje pisac pise sam sebi, kako bi si rekao stvari koje drugacije ne bi mogao shvatiti.

Mientras haya chavales en pantalón corto que sepan manejar esdrújulas habrá esperanza

The first person I heard mention Carax was Toni Cabestany

Die Hoffnungen sind den Menschen zu eigen, das Schicksal aber teilt der Teufel zu.

He sculpted his sentences neatly, measuring them out with a cadence that seemed to promise an ultimate moral that never emerged.

Those were years of want and misery, strangely blessed by the sort of peace that the dumb and the disabled inspire in us—halfway between pity and revulsion.