Quotes from Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Porque en esta vida lo único que sienta cátedra es el prejuicio.

el tiempo hace con el cuerpo lo que la estupidez con el alma: lo pudre.

Uno no se da cuenta del vacío en el que ha dejado pasar el tiempo hasta que vive de verdad. A veces la vida, no los días quemados, es solo un instante, un día, una semana o un mes. Uno sabe que está vivo porque duele, porque de repente todo importa y porque cuando ese breve momento se acaba, el resto de su existencia se transforma en un recuerdo al que intenta regresar en vano mientras le queda aliento en el cuerpo

he smiled the way people smile who have no friends - with gratitude.

Remember me, Daniel, even if it's only in a corner and secretly. Don't let me go.

But the years went by in peace. Time goes faster the more hollow it is. Lives with no meaning go straight past you, like trains that don't stop at your station.

A media perorata ya me había quedado en blanco, bien por efecto de la fórmula explosiva o por la pirotecnia gramatical desplegada por mi buen amigo.

En esta vida nadie es feliz de balde, ni aunque sea por un instante

Los pueblos no se miran nunca en el espejo, decía siempre el padre de Clara, y menos con una guerra entre las cejas.

because of the eternal human stupidity of pursuing those who hurt us the most.

Los codiciosos nunca saben cuándo ha llegado el momento de dejar de abusar de su posición y fuerzan las cosas hasta sacarlas de quicio. Por eso, tarde o temprano, caen

Don't add on any years, you rascal. Life will see to that without your help.

her face, less well-chiselled than it used to be, had that slightly defeated expression that comes with routine and disappointment.

En el poder las puñaladas nunca llegan de frente, siempre por la espalda y con un abrazo

It is impossible to survive in a prolonged state of reality, at least for a human being. We spend a good part of our lives dreaming, especially when we're awake.

I realized how easily you can lose all animosity toward someone you've deemed your enemy as soon as that person stops behaving as such.

No hace falta que lo diga si le da vergüenza, porque los varones somos así y la testosterona no alienta al verso.

Vanitas peccata mundi.

Un imbécil es un animal que no sabe o puede cambiar de idea

The first step towards believing passionately is fear. Fear of losing our identity, our life, our status or our beliefs. Fear is the gunpowder and hatred is the fuse. Dogma, the final ingredient, is only a lighted match.

I 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.

Television, my dear Daniel, is the Antichrist, and I can assure you that after only three or four generations, people will no longer even know how to fart on their own and humans will return to living in caves, to medieval savagery, and to the general state of imbecility that slugs overcame back in the Pleistocene era. 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.

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.

si uno quiere que las cosas salgan bien hay que poner a una mujer al mando. —No me