Quotes from Carlos Ruiz Zafon

NEVER BEFORE HAD I FELT TRAPPED, SEDUCED, AND CAUGHT UP in a story," Clara explained

Mantive-me a saborear as curvas daquelas costas e a sua suave descida,que nem todas as camisas de noite do mundo conseguiriam esconder.Se bem que estivesse casado há quase 2 anos com aquela prodigiosa criatura,ficava ainda surpreendido ao despertar a seu lado,sentindo o seu calor.

Existimos mientras alguien nos recuerda

La mayoría de los autores que se habían sentido llamados a escribir sobre lo divino, lo humano y lo sacro, debían de haber sido estudiosos doctos y píos en grado sumo, pero como escritores eran una birria. El sufrido lector que debía patinar sobre sus páginas se las veía y se las deseaba para no caer en un estado de coma inducido por el aburrimiento a cada punto y aparte.

Loco es el que se tiene por cuerdo y cree que los necios no son de su condición.

Is it true you haven't read any of these books?" "Books are boring." "Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you," answered Julián.

Cada libro, cada volumen que ves aquí, tiene un alma. El alma de la persona que lo escribió y de aquellos que lo leyeron, vivieron y soñaron con él.

La culpa y el remordimiento no tienen significado. Son sentimientos, emociones, no ideas.

In time, my mother decided she wanted to return to Spain.

I'm not sure whether to thank you or report you to the police," he said at last.

Nothing is ever the same after a war.

Alguien dijo una vez que en el momento en que te paras a pensar si quieres a alguien, ya has dejado de querrerle para siempre

Page after page I let the spell of the story and its world take me over, until the breath of dawn touched my window and my tired eyes slid over the last page. I lay in the bluish half-light with the book on my chest and listened to the murmur of the sleeping city. My eyes began to close, but I resisted. I did not want to lose the story's spell or bid farewell to its characters yet.

She discovered a city of shadows, one no longer inhabited by my father

could try to tell you the story, but it would be like describing a cathedral by saying it's a pile of stones ending in a spire.

Martín, fables are possibly one of the most interesting literary forms ever invented. Do you know what they teach us? Moral lessons? No. They teach us that human beings learn and absorb ideas through narrative, through stories, not through lessons or theoretical speeches.

Look, Daniel. Destiny is usually just around the corner. Like a thief, a hooker, or a lottery vendor: its three most common personifications. But what destiny does not do is home visits. You have to go for it.

A story is an endless labyrinth of words, images, and spirits, conjured up to show us the invisible truth about ourselves.

Even then my only friends were made of paper and ink. At school I had learned to read and write long before the other children. Where my school friends saw notches of ink on incomprehensible pages, I saw light, streets, and people. Words and the mystery of their hidden science fascinated me, and I saw in them a key with which I could unlock a boundless world, a safe haven from that home, those streets, and those troubled days in which even I could sense that only a limited fortune awaited me.

Há prisões piores que as palavras.

No te fíes del que se fía de todos

Le interessa sconfiggere la solitudine e non perdere tempo a capire che in questo schifo di mondo niente vale un centesimo se non abbiamo qualcuno con cui condividerlo.

Corazon caliente, mente fria. EL codigo del seductor

Az elsÅ' lépés önmagad megismerésében, ha különbséget tudsz tenni aközött, hogy miért teszel valamit, meg hogy mit mondasz, miért teszed. De ennél még odébb van, hogy valaki ne legyen kretén.