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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 8390880 | She let herself be lulled by the perfume of the words and was soon lost among them, succumbing to the torrent of images and rhythms that oozed from the story of Ariadna's adventures and her descent into the depths of that enchanted Barcelona. | Carlos Ruiz Zafón | ||
| 2cf7895 | The index of punditry in a society is inversely proportional to its intellectual solvency... When people choose overheated opinions over cold facts, the social order reverts to moronocracy. | Carlos Ruiz Zafón | ||
| b55bc72 | When a rat sneaks in, there's no way of getting rid of it. You give it poison, and it eats it. You set up a rat trap, and it shits on it. A rat is the most difficult thing in the world to get rid of. Because rats are cowards. Because they hide. Because they think they're cleverer than you. | Carlos Ruiz Zafón | ||
| 96237e6 | She wanted to believe him with the yearning that comes with the suspicion that truth hurts, and that cowards live longer and better, even if they do so in the prison of their own lies. | Carlos Ruiz Zafón | ||
| 5d266d1 | There would be time enough later on to hide the dead and invent stories. Now was the moment to pull out the knives and pay homage to cruelty. Wars soil everything, but they clean the memory. | Carlos Ruiz Zafón | ||
| 8bad80e | It's aquarium light and it's cathedral ceilings offered asylum and a lounge where coffee substitutes were served to those who still try to believe that life went on, and that tomorrow, or perhaps the day after tomorrow, would be just another day. | Carlos Ruiz Zafón | ||
| 7594434 | The initial months of the war had left Barcelona plunged in a strange somnolence of fear and internal skirmishes. The fascist Rebellion had failed in Barcelona in the first few days after the coup, and there were those who wanted to believe that the war was now a distant event, that in the end it would be seen as just one more piece of bravado from generals with little stature and even less shame. In a matter of weeks, they said, everything.. | Carlos Ruiz Zafón | ||
| a1a98ff | He] taught me that a book is never finished and that, with luck, it's the book that leaves us so we don't spend the rest of Eternity rewriting it. | Carlos Ruiz Zafón | ||
| 4c17c65 | In that case I feel sorry for you.' 'Then perform an act of charity. | Carlos Ruiz Zafón | ||
| 661889a | El territorio de los seres humanos es la vida. La muerte no nos pertenece. | marina | Carlos Ruiz Zafón | |
| fbf52c2 | Tonterias lo son todo en esta vida. Es simplemente una cuestion de perspectiva. | Carlos Ruiz Zafón | ||
| 0713d83 | Sometimes, the things that are the most real only happen in one's imagination, Oscar, she said. We only remember what never really happened. | memories | Carlos Ruiz Zafón | |
| a8aab05 | Si regala qualcosa per il piacere di farlo,non perche qualcuno lo meriti o meno | Carlos Ruiz Zafón | ||
| d90d124 | To achieve anything you must first have ambition and then talent, knowledge, and finally the opportunity. | Carlos Ruiz Zafón | ||
| b1cd1e3 | I had not understood that this was a story about lonely people, about absence and loss, and that that was why I had taken refuge in it until it became confused with my own life, like someone who has escaped into the pages of a novel because those whom he needs to love seem nothing more than ghosts inhabiting the mind of a stranger. | Carlos Ruiz Zafón | ||
| b05e77d | Time has taught me not to lose hope, yet not to trust too much in hope either. Hope is cruel, and has no conscience. For | Carlos Ruiz Zafón | ||
| b3d1e6d | I wondered what on earth she saw in me that could make her want to befriend me, other than a pale reflection of herself, an echo of solitude and loss. 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 | ||
| 07015f1 | Se que no es usted hombre de fe, Edmond, pero la fe se encuentra cuando no se busca y llegara el dia en que sea su corazon, no su mente, el que anhele la purificacion del alma. | Carlos Ruiz Zafón | ||
| 7e49eac | Niama vtori shansove v zhivota, osven za ugrizeniiata. | Carlos Ruiz Zafón | ||
| 65640a8 | A legend is a lie that has been whipped up to explain a universal truth. | Carlos Ruiz Zafón | ||
| cc7fe74 | We still have a lot of history to live through, Daniel, and what awaits us is no longer child's play. Are you with me? To that end of the world, which, for all we know, might only be around the corner? | Carlos Ruiz Zafón | ||
| 4bfbb28 | Alicia was already walking down the street when the shop assistant stuck his head out of the door and called out, "Miss? You haven't told me your name ..." Alicia turned around and there Bonito a smile that left its mark on him all day and part of the night." | Carlos Ruiz Zafón | ||
| 19f6e9b | Nothing is more surprising or frightening than what one already knows. | Carlos Ruiz Zafón | ||
| 9619031 | A wise man is one who doesn't stir up volcanoes, revolutions, or pregnant females. | Carlos Ruiz Zafón | ||
| 77a9eed | Alicia was already walking down the street when the shop assistant stuck his head out of the door and called out, "Miss? You haven't told me your name ..." Alicia turned around and threw Bonito a smile that left its mark on him all day and part of the night." | Carlos Ruiz Zafón | ||
| 51dedfd | The world is simply the reflection of those of us who make it up. | Carlos Ruiz Zafón | ||
| f635299 | Nothing keeps memory more alive than resentment. | Carlos Ruiz Zafón | ||
| f2ed186 | Truth is never perfect, never squares with all expectations. Truth always poses doubts and questions. Only lies are one hundred percent believable, because they don't need to justify reality, they simply have to tell us what we want to hear. | Carlos Ruiz Zafón | ||
| 780326c | David Martin taught me many things: how to create a sentence, how to think about language and all its devices as an orchestra in search of a musical score, how to analyse a text and understand how it is constructed and why ... He taught me to read and write again, but this time I knew what I was doing, why, and what for. And above all how. He never tired of telling me that in literature there is only one real theme: not what is narrated, bu.. | Carlos Ruiz Zafón | ||
| e9c19fe | Bea had always detested visiting the city of the dead, where all she saw was a morbid staging of death and a poor attempt at convincing terrified visitors that ancestry and good names persevere even in the hereafter. She deplored the idea that an army of architects, sculptors, and artisans had sold their talents to construct such a sumptuous necropolis and populate it with statues in which the spirits of death leaned over to kiss the forehe.. | Carlos Ruiz Zafón | ||
| afe6e2d | Her face was lined with bitterness and her eyes looked glazed, tired of hating and weeping in solitude. | Carlos Ruiz Zafón | ||
| 0201d32 | The very thought that the poor creature could still hold the slightest bit of affection for him or for the world seem too cruel. | Carlos Ruiz Zafón | ||
| 2c59273 | Finally, in a slow, deliberate manner, and with a calm and authoritarian composure of a preacher who knows the meekness of his flock, he drew the microphone to his lips and began his homily. | Carlos Ruiz Zafón | ||
| f7d7c19 | This is where tragedies and romances began and ended, as did escapes and returns, betrayals and absences. Life, some said, is a railway station where one almost always enters, or it gets put into, the wrong carriage. | Carlos Ruiz Zafón | ||
| b6a5b3a | In the end Alicia had accepted that heavy piece as she done with so many of Leandro's offerings, in a tacit agreement of submission and pretense, where the unmentionable was sealed with a cold smile of politeness and a veil of silence, | Carlos Ruiz Zafón | ||
| 65bb94c | I hope you find the path that I missed. | Carlos Ruiz Zafón | ||
| 34d379e | You believe what it's possible to believe, not what you want to believe. Unless you're an idiot, in which case it's the other way around. | Carlos Ruiz Zafón | ||
| 632ddc8 | When you're young, you see the world as it should be, and when you're old you start to see it as it really is. You'll be cured eventually. | Carlos Ruiz Zafón | ||
| b6b8546 | Hope is no more than the belief that that moment hasn't yet come, | Carlos Ruiz Zafón | ||
| acfdbe1 | She'll live. I've already seen her return from among the dead once before, and those who learn the trick never forget it. I speak from experience. To return from the dead is a bit like riding a bike, or unfastening a girl's bra with a single hand. It's all a question of getting the knack. | Carlos Ruiz Zafón | ||
| f08dadd | Those who aren't able to fall in love suffer all the more. | Carlos Ruiz Zafón | ||
| f1a248e | I've never been one for naps. What I go for is insomnia elevated to an art form. I'll catch up on sleep when I die. | Carlos Ruiz Zafón | ||
| 1129b61 | Are you sure you don't think that if you save someone decent, you'll save the world, or at least the possibility that something good might be left in it? | Carlos Ruiz Zafón | ||
| db49339 | The most sincere pain is experienced alone. | Carlos Ruiz Zafón |