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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 60523b9 | Miquel Moliner etait devore par une culpabilite qu'il soignait par le travail, et meme s'il respectait, voire enviait l'oisivete des autres, il la fuyait comme la peste. Loin de se vanter de son ethique du travail, il plaisantait sur cette frenesie de production et la decrivait comme une forme mineure de la lachete. -Pendant qu'on travaille, on ne regarde pas la vie dans les yeux. | Carlos Ruiz Zafón | ||
| a03694b |
el nivel de barbarie de una sociedad se mide por la distancia que intenta poner entre las mujeres y los libros. < |
Carlos Ruiz Zafón | ||
| fd4d579 | It's up to you. It is one thing to believe in women, and another to believe what they say. | Carlos Ruiz Zafón | ||
| c33b2b5 | Vanitas peccata mundi. | Carlos Ruiz Zafón | ||
| c185658 | La verdad es un acuerdo que permite que los inocentes no tengan que convivir con la realidad. --No | Carlos Ruiz Zafón | ||
| 48f8b4d | Il dolore piu sincero si vive soltanto da soli. | life loneliness pain | Carlos Ruiz Zafón | |
| d3cbf90 | 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 | ||
| e1ab2e1 | Por ese motivo deseaba que Edmond proyectase el mayor laberinto jamas creado, una biblioteca secreta, una ciudad de libros que habria de existir oculta bajo las catacumbas de la catedral de Hagia | Carlos Ruiz Zafón | ||
| 19af2e7 | Dimmi che mi sbaglio e me ne vado subito. Lo ami?" Ci fissammo a lungo, senza parlare. "Non lo so." sussurro alla fine. "Non lo so." "Qualcuno ha detto che nel momento in cui ti soffermi a pensare se ami o meno una persona, hai gia la risposta." affermai." | Carlos Ruiz Zafón | ||
| 7d08766 | Forgive me,' he whispered. I held my father's gaze. Sometimes he seemed to grow a little older just by looking at me and remembering. I stood up and hugged him quietly. He held me tight and when he burst into tears the anger and the pain he'd buried in his soul all those years gushed out like blood. I knew then, without being able to explain clearly why, that slowly, inexorably, my father had begun to die. | Carlos Ruiz Zafón | ||
| 7e64eca | Under the warm light cast by the reading lamp, I was plunged into a new world of images and sensations, peopled by characters who seemed as real to me as my room. Page after page I let the spell of the story and its world take me over, until the breath of dawn touched my window and my tired eyes slid over the last page. | Carlos Ruiz Zafón | ||
| db73180 | la historia habia reservado los altares y las estampitas para san Jorge, pero al dragon le habia tocado la ciudad de Barcelona en perpetuidad | Carlos Ruiz Zafón | ||
| 86e2ef7 | Boquiabierto, avance despacio hacia aquel castillo tramado con todos los libros jamas escritos. | Carlos Ruiz Zafón | ||
| 549ea62 | A caminho daquele que bem poderia ser o ultimo dia da sua curts existencia disse a si mesmo que, gracas a Alicia, aprendera pelo menos duas coisas uteis que lhe serviriam para sempre, se vivesse para o contar. A primeira era a mentir. A segunda, e esta ainda a sentia em carne viva, era que os juramentos sao um pouco como os coracoes: quebrando o primeiro, os outros nao custam nada. | esquecidos livros zafon | Carlos Ruiz Zafón | |
| 69b27f6 | La verdad son las tonterias que dice la gente cuando se cree que sabe algo, | Carlos Ruiz Zafón | ||
| 08189bf | A caminho daquele que bem poderia ser o ultimo dia da sua curta existencia disse a si mesmo que, gracas a Alicia, aprendera pelo menos duas coisas uteis que lhe serviriam para sempre, se vivesse para o contar. A primeira era a mentir. A segunda, e esta ainda a sentia em carne viva, era que os juramentos sao um pouco como os coracoes: quebrando o primeiro, os outros nao custam nada. | ruiz zafon | Carlos Ruiz Zafón | |
| 0c1d712 | Demasiados secretos son los que llevan a un hombre a la tumba antes de hora. | Carlos Ruiz Zafón | ||
| 594f9f3 | I don't like telephones. I like to see people's faces when they speak and for them to see mine." "In your case I'm not sure that's a good idea. Have you looked at yourself in the mirror recently?" "That's your department." | Carlos Ruiz Zafón | ||
| 49329b0 | En una ocasion oi comentar a un cliente habitual en la libreria de mi padre que pocas cosas marcan tanto a un lector como el primer libro que realmente se abre camino hasta su corazon. | Carlos Ruiz Zafón | ||
| 2f848ad | Con el tiempo, incluso los malos recuerdos se disfrazan de blanco | Carlos Ruiz Zafón | ||
| f7de228 | Aos poucos, assaltou-me a ideia de que atras da capa de cada um daqueles livros se abria um infinito universo por explorar e que, fora daquelas paredes, o mundo deixava que a vida passasse em tardes de futebol e em novelas de radio, satisfeito em ver apenas ate onde vai o seu umbigo e pouco mais. | Carlos Ruiz Zafón | ||
| d788f1e | Certa ocasiao ouvi um cliente habitual da livraria de meu pai comentar que poucas coisas marcam tanto um leitor como o primeiro livro que realmente abre caminho ao seu coracao. As primeiras imagens, o eco dessas palavras que pensamos ter deixado para tras, nos acompanham por toda a vida e esculpem um palacio em nossa memoria [...] ao qual iremos retornar. | Carlos Ruiz Zafón | ||
| 9c9a78d | Senti-me rodeado por milhares de paginas abandonadas, de universos e almas sem dono, que se fundiam em um oceano de escuridao enquanto o mundo que palpitava do lado de fora daquelas paredes perdia a memoria sem perceber, dia apos dia, sentindo-se mais sabio quanto mais esquecia. | Carlos Ruiz Zafón | ||
| a5622ab | There I learned that one can forget almost everything in life, beginning with bad smells, and that if there was one thing I aspired to, it was not to die in a place like that. In the low hours--which were most hours--I told myself that if anything was going to get me out of there before an outbreak of tuberculosis did the job, it was literature, and if that pricked anyone's soul, or their balls, they could scratch them with a brick. | Carlos Ruiz Zafón | ||
| 013f841 | Have you ever known a woman, David?" "Of course I have. Dozens of them." "I mean in the biblical sense." "As in Mass?" "No, as in bed." "Ah." | Carlos Ruiz Zafón | ||
| f57491d | Even then my only friends were made of paper and ink. At school I had learned to read and write long before the other children. Where my school friends saw notches of ink on incomprehensible pages, I saw light, streets, and people. Words and the mystery of their hidden science fascinated me, and I saw in them a key with which I could unlock a boundless world, a safe haven from that home, those streets, and those troubled days in which even .. | Carlos Ruiz Zafón | ||
| bf781a4 | I had begun to understand that my father was ashamed that others might think him ignorant, a residue from a war which, like all wars, was fought in the name of God and country to make a few men who were already far too powerful when they started it even more powerful. | Carlos Ruiz Zafón | ||
| 051ffc3 | A stroke saw him off on All Souls' Night, with a Cuban cigar in his lips and a twenty-five-year-old on his lap. What a way to go. | Carlos Ruiz Zafón | ||
| d82f79c | Escribir es un oficio que se aprende, pero que nadie puede ensenar. El dia que entienda usted lo que eso significa sera cuando empiece a aprender a ser escritor. | writing | Carlos Ruiz Zafón | |
| b814d72 | And how do you see me?" "Like a mystery." "That's the strangest compliment anyone has ever paid me." "It's not a compliment. It's a threat." "What do you mean?" "Mysteries must be solved, one must find out what they hide." "You might be disappointed when you see what's inside." "I might be surprised. And you, too." | Carlos Ruiz Zafón | ||
| 6746c45 | I realized how easily you can lose all animosity toward someone you've deemed your enemy as soon as that person stops behaving as such. | Carlos Ruiz Zafón | ||
| aa6062e | I thought about the loneliness that would take hold of me that night when I said good-bye to her, once I had run out of tricks or stories to make her stay with me any longer. I thought about how little I had to offer her and how much I wanted from her. | Carlos Ruiz Zafón | ||
| f6b681e | Lo bueno se hace esperar. | Carlos Ruiz Zafón | ||
| 68be745 | Hay peores carceles que las palabras... | Carlos Ruiz Zafón | ||
| b09f1cf | lo que cuenta a veces no es lo que se da, sino lo que se cede. | Carlos Ruiz Zafón | ||
| bc03458 | yrwq lb`D lns 'n tt`qd Hythm zyd@ `n t`qydth l'ssy@ | Carlos Ruiz Zafón | ||
| 08ccd58 | Todo navegante que se precie tiene un iceberg en su destino. | Carlos Ruiz Zafón | ||
| eb0a4d0 | Escribir es un oficio que se aprende, pero que nadie puede ensenar. El dia que entienda usted lo que eso significa sera quando empiece a aprender a ser escritor. | Carlos Ruiz Zafón | ||
| e4b21e6 | Se escribe para uno mismo y se reescribe para los demas. | Carlos Ruiz Zafón | ||
| eda74f3 | You know a lot of things, Senor Corelli." "Enough to think that I would like to be better acquainted with you and become your friend. I don't suppose you have many friends. Neither do I. I don't trust people who say they have a lot of friends. It's a sure sign that they don't really know anyone." | Carlos Ruiz Zafón | ||
| 1b59d9d | I can't die yet, doctor. Not yet. I have things to do. Afterwards I'll have a whole lifetime in which to die. | Carlos Ruiz Zafón | ||
| 1a08f98 | Whether we realize it or not, most of us define ourselves by opposing rather than by favoring something or someone. | Carlos Ruiz Zafón | ||
| 93626be | Don't be ashamed of being scared. To be afraid is a sign of common sense. Only complete idiots are not afraid of anything. I read that in a book. | Carlos Ruiz Zafón | ||
| 42ec42c | I know you men believe that the size of your stubbornness should match the size of your privates." "Did you also read that in your book?" "No, that wisdom's homemade." | Carlos Ruiz Zafón |