Quotes from Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Este lugar es un misterio, Daniel, un santuario. Cada libro que ves tiene alma. El alma de quien lo escribió, y el alma de quienes lo leyeron y vivieron y soñaron con el. Cada vez que un libro cambia de manos, cada vez que alguien desliza la mirada por sus paginas, su espíritu crece y se hace fuerte

the sound of the fountain wove its way through the arches.

Bea Aguilar was the very image of her mother and the apple of her father's eye. Redheaded and exquisitely pale, she always wore very expensive dresses made of silk or pure wool.

When we stand in front of a coffin, we see only what is good, or what we want to see.

Há alturas e locais em que não ser ninguém é mais honroso do que ser alguém.

Sometimes he seemed to grow a little older just by looking at me and remembering.

In this manner, secretly, the Fortuny family let the years go by, silencing their hearts and their souls to the point where, from so much keeping quiet, they forgot the words with which to express their real feelings and the family became strangers living under the same roof, like so many other families living in the vast city. - Phoenix paperback, 2005, p.132

Hello, Daniel," said Beatriz Aguilar. I nodded at her, tongue-tied. I realized I'd been drooling over my best friend's sister, Bea. The one woman I was completely terrified of.

When you're young, you see the world as it should be, and when you're old you start to it as it really is.

Uma das armadilhas da infância é que não é preciso compreender para sentir.Na altura em que a razão é capaz de compreender o sucedido,as feridas no coração já são demasiado profundas.

M-am gândit cât de mult îmi doream s? m? refugiez în privirea aceea fugar? care se temea c? e transparent?, goal?. M-am gândit la singur?tatea ce avea s? m? cuprind? în noaptea aceea, când aveam s? m? despart de ea, în lips? de alte trucuri sau poveÅŸti cu care s?-mi câÅŸtig compania ei. M-am gândit la cât de puÈ›ine aveam s?-i ofer ÅŸi cât de multe voiam de la ea.

Julián is now the bathroom of the chief executive. That day, when I returned to the bookshop after visiting the old house, I found a parcel bearing a Paris postmark. It contained a book calledThe Angel

A veces es mejor poner el cerebro a trabajar y agotarlo que dejarlo en reposo para que, cuando se aburra, le empiece a devorar a uno vivo.

I've seen many strange things in my work, my friend, but a wealthy lawyer who leaves everything to go write sonnets is not part of the repertoire. -Ricardo Salvador

Imagine, they think they've found the Holy Shroud, the real one, bang in downtown Toledo. It had been sewn to a cinema screen, to hide it from the Muslims. Apparently they wanted to use it so they could say Jesus Christ was a black man. What do you make of that?

But nobody was going to snatch his son from him again. This time God Almighty could descend from the heavens, the same God who had ignored the hatter's prayers all his life, and he would gladly pull out His eyes if He dared push Julián away again.

Al leer ponemos la mente y el alma, y ésos son bienes cada día más escasos. Cada libro, cada tomo que ves, tiene alma. El alma de quien lo escribió, y el alma de quienes lo leyeron y vivieron y soñaron con él.

I had begun to understand that my father was ashamed that others might think him ignorant, a residue from a war which, like all wars, was fought in the name of God and country to make a few men who were already far too powerful when they started it even more powerful.

A justiça é uma extravagância da perspectiva, e não um valor universal.

You don't know my niece Clara, do you?" asked Barceló.

Tôi có th? k? l?i cho em ná»™i dung câu chuy?n, nhÆ°ng làm v?y cÅ©ng ch?ng khác gì mô t? toà thánh ???ng r?ng nó là má»™t ch?ng Ä'á mà trên cùng là chóp nh?n v?y.

When you're young, you see the world as it should be, and when you're old you start to see it as it really is.

The rules make provisions for everything, especially on occasions when one doesn't know what to do.

I believe that nothing happens by chance. Deep down, things have their secret plan, even though we don't understand it.