Carlos Ruiz Zafón: Trending quotes

“Hope is cruel and has no consequence”

“I hoped my absence made them happy or at least made them forget that they weren't happy and never will be.”

“Old age is the lubricant of belief. When death knocks at the door, skepticism flies out the window. A serious cardiovascular fright and a person will even believe in Little Red Riding Hood.”

“Poetry aside, a religion is really a moral code that is expressed through legends, myths, or any type of literary device in order to establish a system of beliefs, values, and rules with which to regulate a culture or a society.”

“Disarmed, 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.”

“I quarreled with every word, every phrase and expression, every image and letter as if they were the last I was ever going to write. I wrote and rewrote every line as if my life depended on it, and then rewrote it again.”

“God gives us life, but the world's landlord is the devil….”

“Whoever said that childhood is the happiest time of your life is a liar, or a fool.”

“You can come share a tasty meal of bread, raisins, and fresh cheese. With that, andanyone can live to a hundred.”

“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.”

“A man must have vices, expensive ones if possible. Otherwise when he reaches old age he will have nothing to be redeemed from.”

“They had parted as boys, and now life presented one of them with a fugitive and the other with a dying man. Both wondered whether this was due to the cards they'd been dealt or to the way they had played them.”

“While you're working, you don't have to look life in the eye.”

“Patience is the mother of all virtues and the godmother of madness”

“Why is it that the less one has to say the more one says it in the most pompous and pedantic way possible?… Is it to fool the world or just to fool themselves?”

“Martin, at my age, eroticism is reduced to enjoying caramel custard and looking at widows' necks.”

“The road to hell is paved with good intentions.”

“Everything in life in nonsense. It's just a question of persepctive”

“Some things have to be seen in the shadows”