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

Carlos Ruiz Zafón book The Shadow of the Wind

Source: The Shadow of the Wind

“All the geography, trigonometry, and arithmetic in the world are useless unless you learn to think for yourself. No school teaches you that. It's not on the curriculum.”

Carlos Ruiz Zafón book Marina

Source: Marina

“I can't die yet, doctor. Not yet. I have things to do. Afterwords I'll have a whole lifetime in which to die.”

Carlos Ruiz Zafón book The Angel's Game

Source: The Angel's Game

“This cures everything except stupidity, which is an epidemic on the rise.”

Carlos Ruiz Zafón book The Angel's Game

Source: The Angel's Game

“It's only worth staying in bed if you're young and in good company.”

Carlos Ruiz Zafón book The Angel's Game

Source: The Angel's Game

“We humans are willing to believe anything rather than the truth.”

Carlos Ruiz Zafón book The Shadow of the Wind

Variant: We are willing to believe anything other than the truth.
Source: The Shadow of the Wind

“Time does to the body what stupidity does to the soul”

Carlos Ruiz Zafón book Marina

Source: Marina

“Our body begins to destroy itself from the moment it is born. We are fragile. We’re creatures of passage. All that is left of us are our actions, the good or the evil we do to our fellow humans”

Carlos Ruiz Zafón book Marina

Source: Marina

“Money is like any other virus: once it has rotted the soul of the person who houses it, it sets off in search of new blood.”

Carlos Ruiz Zafón book The Shadow of the Wind

Source: The Shadow of the Wind

“A good liar knows that the most efficient lie is always a truth that has had a key piece removed from it.”

Carlos Ruiz Zafón book The Prisoner of Heaven

Source: The Prisoner of Heaven

“Whether we realise it or not, most of us define ourselves by opposing rather than by favouring something or someone. To put it another way, it is easier to react than to act.”

Carlos Ruiz Zafón book The Angel's Game

Source: The Angel's Game

“Everything can be forgiven in this world, save telling the truth.”

Carlos Ruiz Zafón book The Prisoner of Heaven

Source: The Prisoner of Heaven

“And here I was thinking you were a bit slow, what with so much asking and not knowing anything.”

Carlos Ruiz Zafón book The Shadow of the Wind

Source: The Shadow of the Wind

“There was no more good or evil in this world than we imagine there to be, either out of greed or out of innocence. Or sometimes madness.”

Carlos Ruiz Zafón book The Angel's Game

Source: The Angel's Game

“I've always thought that anyone who needs to join a herd so badly must be a bit of a sheep himself.”

Carlos Ruiz Zafón book The Prisoner of Heaven

Source: The Prisoner of Heaven

“It's the student who makes the teacher, not the other way around.”

Carlos Ruiz Zafón book The Angel's Game

Source: The Angel's Game

“Waiting is the rust of the soul.”

Carlos Ruiz Zafón

“Maturity is simply the process of discovering that everything you believed in when you were young is false and that all the things you refused to believe in turn out to be true.”

Carlos Ruiz Zafón book The Midnight Palace

Source: The Midnight Palace