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“Destiny doesn't do home visits… you have to go for it yourself.”

Carlos Ruiz Zafón book The Prisoner of Heaven

Source: The Prisoner of Heaven

“I've always said that idleness dulls the spirit. We have to keep the brain busy, or at least the hands if we don't have a brain.”

Carlos Ruiz Zafón book The Angel's Game

Source: The Angel's Game

“One mustn't dream of one's future; one must earn it.”

Carlos Ruiz Zafón book The Prisoner of Heaven

Source: The Prisoner of Heaven

“Every work of art is aggressive, Isabella. And every artist's life is a small war or a large one, beginning with oneself and one's limitations. To achieve anything you must first have ambition and then talent, knowledge, and finally the opportunity.”

Carlos Ruiz Zafón book The Angel's Game

Source: The Angel's Game

“The most despicable humans are the ones who always feel virtuous and look down on the rest of the world.”

Carlos Ruiz Zafón book The Angel's Game

Source: The Angel's Game

“You women listen more to your heart and less to all the nonsense. That's why you live longer.”

Carlos Ruiz Zafón book The Shadow of the Wind

Source: The Shadow of the Wind

“People only disappear when they have somewhere to go”

Carlos Ruiz Zafón book Marina

Source: Marina

“May I offer you something? A small glass of cyanide?”

Carlos Ruiz Zafón book The Angel's Game

Source: The Angel's Game

“Coincidences are the scars of fate.”

Carlos Ruiz Zafón book The Shadow of the Wind

La sombra del viento (The Shadow of the Wind) (2001)

“We think we understand a song's lyrics but what makes us believe in them, or not, is the music”

Carlos Ruiz Zafón book The Angel's Game

Source: The Angel's Game

“You young people never say anything. And us old folks don't know how to stop talking.”

Carlos Ruiz Zafón book The Shadow of the Wind

Source: The Shadow of the Wind

“Deep down we've never been who we think we once were, and we only remember what never happened.”

Carlos Ruiz Zafón book The Prisoner of Heaven

Source: The Prisoner of Heaven

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

Carlos Ruiz Zafón book The Shadow of the Wind

Source: The Shadow of the Wind

“It seems that in the advanced stages of stupidity, a lack of ideas is compensated for by an excess of ideologies.”

Carlos Ruiz Zafón book The Angel's Game

Source: The Angel's Game

“Jacinta never told Penelope that she loved her. The nurse knew that those who really love, love in silence, with deeds and not with words.”

Carlos Ruiz Zafón book The Shadow of the Wind

Variant: The nurse knew that those who really love, love in silence, with deeds and not with words.
Source: The Shadow of the Wind

“Nothing is fair. The most one can hope is for things to be logical. Justice is a rare illness in a world that is otherwise a picture of health.”

Carlos Ruiz Zafón book The Angel's Game

Source: The Angel's Game

“That day was turning out to be longer than”

Carlos Ruiz Zafón book The Shadow of the Wind

Source: The Shadow of the Wind

“Nobody knows much about women, not even Freud, not even women themselves.
But it's like electricity: you don't need to know how it works to get a shock on the fingers.”

Carlos Ruiz Zafón

“Julian spoke with the clear, unequivocal lucidity of madmen who have escaped the hypocrisy of having to abide by a reality that makes no sense.”

Carlos Ruiz Zafón book The Shadow of the Wind

Source: The Shadow of the Wind