Carlos Ruiz Zafón: Quotes about life

“There are no second chances in life, except to feel remorse.”

“It's up to you how you waste your time and money. I'm staying here to read: life's too short.”

“That book taught me that by reading, I could live more intensely. It could give me back the sight I had lost. For that reason alone, a book that didn't matter to anyone changed my life.”

“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.”

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

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

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

“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.”

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

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

“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.”