Carlos Ruiz Zafón: Trending quotes (page 2)

“I tried to swallow his nonsense without choking.”

“The world's very small when you don't have anywhere to go.”

“I discovered that seventeen-year-old girls have such huge verbal energy that their brain drives them to expend it every twenty seconds. On the third day I decided I had to find her a boyfriend -- if possible, a deaf one.”

“I prefer you like this, when you're in a foul mood, because you tell the truth.”

“Books hold no passports. There's only one true literary tradition: the human.”

“In my schoolboy reveries, we were always two fugitives riding on the spine of a book, eager to escape into worlds of fiction and secondhand dreams.”

“If you don't know where you're going, you won't go anywhere.”

“Nobody had noticed, nobody had paid attention, but, as usual, the essential part of the matter had been settled before the story had begun, and by then it was too late.”

“A good friend once told me that the problems are like cockroaches. If drawn to light, they'll get scared.”

“Death does that: it makes everyone feel sentimental. When we stand in front of a coffin, we all see only what is good or what we want to see.”

“I leafed through the pages, inhaling the enchanted scent of promise that comes with all new books, and stopped to read the start of a sentence that caught my eye.”

“One is never wholly conscious of the greed hidden in one's heart until one hears the sweet sound of silver.”

“That's what happens when people reach old age; nobody remembers they've been bastards too.”

“He would have liked to know that somebody wanted to keep him alive, that someone remembered him. He used to say that we exist as long as somebody remembers us.”

“If people thought a quarter of what they speak, this world would be heaven.”

“A book is a mirror that offers us only what we already carry inside us.”

“She was seventeen, her entire life shining on her lips.”

“Sometimes, in difficult circumstances, one can confuse compassion with love.”

“All true stories begin and end in a cemetery" - The Shadow of the Wind”