Carlos Ruiz Zafón: Quotes about the world

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“Few things leave a deeper mark on a reader than the first book that finds its way into his heart. Those first images, the echo of words we think we have left behind, accompany us throughout our lives and sculpt a palace in our memory to which, sooner or later--no matter how many books we read, how many worlds we discover or how much we learn or forget--we will return.”

Carlos Ruiz Zafón book The Shadow of the Wind

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

“Our world will not die as the result of the bomb, as the papers say, it will die of laughter, of banality, or making a joke of everything, and a lousy joke at that.”

Carlos Ruiz Zafón book The Shadow of the Wind

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

“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

“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

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

Carlos Ruiz Zafón book The Prisoner of Heaven

Source: The Prisoner of Heaven

“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

“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.”

Carlos Ruiz Zafón book The Shadow of the Wind

Source: The Shadow of the Wind

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

Carlos Ruiz Zafón book The Prisoner of Heaven

Source: The Prisoner of Heaven

“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?”

Carlos Ruiz Zafón book The Angel's Game

Source: The Angel's Game

“Paris is the only city in the world where starving to death is still considered an art.”

Carlos Ruiz Zafón book The Shadow of the Wind

Source: The Shadow of the Wind