Quotes from Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Sono poche le ragioni per dire la verità, mentre quelle per mentire sono infinite

Making money isn't hard in itself, what's hard is to earn it doing something worth devoting your life to.

Nadie triunfa sin fracasar antes

O futuro não se deseja,merece-se.

Contei-lhe que até àquele momento não tinha compreendido que aquela era uma história de gente só,de ausências e de perda,e que por essa razão me tinha refugiado nela até a confundir com a minha própria vida,como quem escapa através das páginas de um romance porque aqueles que precisa de amar são apenas sombras que vivem na alma de um estranho.

and I kissed his forehead, as if by doing so I could protect him from the invisible threads that kept him away from me, from that tiny apartment, and from my memories, as if I believed that with that kiss I could deceive time and convince it to pass us by, to return some other day, some other life.

Amilyen Å'si, oly biztos e tapasztalat: mondd meg, mivel dicsekszel, s én megmondom, mi hiányzik leginkább belÅ'led.

And start thinking about another of these stories for me. I'll give you a week for the next one. But don't fall asleep. And let's see if we can have a lower body count this time—today's readers like a slushy ending in which the greatness of the human spirit triumphs over adversity, that sort of rubbish.

Until then, reading was just a duty, a sort of fine one had to pay teachers and tutors without quite knowing why. I had never known the pleasure of reading, of exploring the recesses of the soul, of letting myself be carried away by imagination, beauty, and the mystery of fiction and language. For me all those things were born with that novel.

Il nichilismo è solo una posa, non una dottrina. Metta la fiamma di una candela sotto i testicoli di un nichilista e constaterà come vede in fretta la luce dell'esistenza.

Sometimes it's best to put your mind to work and exhaust it, rather than let it rest, in case it gets bored and starts eating you up alive.

Là où il y a un troupeau d'agneaux, finissent toujours par apparître des loups affamés.

Le podria decir a usted que es el corazon, pero lo que mata es la soledad

Se solo avessi riflettuto, avrei capito che quella dedizione assoluta era un'inesauribile fonte di pena; ma forse era proprio perché soffrivo tanto che la adoravo sempre di più, schiavo dell'eterna stupidaggine di stare dietro a chi ci fa del male.

Uno tiene que cometer sus propios errores, no los de los demás.

The only useful thing about military service is that it reveals the number of morons in the population,' he would remark. 'And that can be discovered in the first two weeks; there's no need for two years.

A veces nos creemos que las personas son décimos de lotería: que están ahí para hacer realidad nuestras ilusiones absurdas

Las personas estamos dispuestas a creer en todo antes que en la verdad

You don't like me much, do you, Daniel?' The question took me completely by surprise. Disarmed, I realized how easily you can lose all animosity towards someone you've deemed your enemy as soon as that person stops behaving as such.

She's a bit nutty. She spends all day reading.

el último refugio, es un pequeño anexo del alma al que, cuando el mundo naufraga en su absurda comedia, uno siempre puede correr a encerrarse y extraviar la llave.

Odiar de veras es un talento que se aprende con los años. Me

Poesia à parte ,uma religião é no fundo um código moral que se expressa por meio de lendas,mitos ou qualquer tipo de artifício literário a fim de estabelecer um sistema de crenças, valores e normas com os quais se regula uma cultura ou uma sociedade.

It's the student who makes the teacher, not the other way round.