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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| b2cded0 | Don't learn how to find excuses for not writing before you learn how to write. That's a privilege of professionals and you have to earn it. | Carlos Ruiz Zafón | ||
| dd62e63 | Every self-respecting persuasive ploy must first appeal to curiosity, then to vanity, and lastly to kindness or remorse. | Carlos Ruiz Zafón | ||
| 96b85d3 | It's time to go courting." "Excuse me?" "Courting, or, in scientific terms, time for a kiss and a cuddle. Look here, Sempere, for some strange reason centuries of supposed civilization have brought us to a situation in which one cannot go sidling up to women on street corners or asking them to marry us, just like that. First there has to be courtship." | Carlos Ruiz Zafón | ||
| a850d0e | I'm not sure whether to thank you or report you to the police, | Carlos Ruiz Zafón | ||
| 2db81bc | Each day when I said good-bye to her, she asked me if I loved her and I always gave her the same reply. "I'll always love you," I would say. "Always." | Carlos Ruiz Zafón | ||
| d24fe48 | I found a tin of English chocolate biscuits and decided to have some. Half an hour later, my veins pumping with sugar and caffeine, my brain started to work and I had the brilliant idea of beginning the day by complicating my existence even further, if that was possible. | Carlos Ruiz Zafón | ||
| 6f55e05 | I looked at her, a broken woman with tears in her eyes, and didn't wish for anything in the world other than the ability to give her back what she'd never had. | Carlos Ruiz Zafón | ||
| 171b257 | I hugged her for the last time and looked into her eyes. On the way we had agreed there would be no farewells, no solemn words, no promises to fulfill. | Carlos Ruiz Zafón | ||
| cd13e53 | I'd like you to talk to that someone about me and, through your words, make me live forever. | Carlos Ruiz Zafón | ||
| 8cd4b28 | Normally, the more talent one has, the more one doubts it," I said. "And vice versa." "Then I must be quite something," Isabella replied." | Carlos Ruiz Zafón | ||
| f0f0ebe | Despite myself, I could feel my eyes filling with tears and I turned my head so that she couldn't see my face. Isabella turned off the light on the bedside table and stayed there, sitting close to me in the dark, listening to the weeping of a miserable drunk, asking no questions, offering no opinion, offering nothing other than her company and her kindness, until I fell asleep. | Carlos Ruiz Zafón | ||
| 43539c9 | I prefer you like this, when you're in a foul mood, because you tell the truth. | Carlos Ruiz Zafón | ||
| 5ff08ff | Perhaps part of your problem is that you've been reading the commentators and not the people they were commenting on. A common mistake but fatal when you're trying to learn something, | Carlos Ruiz Zafón | ||
| 7f84f6d | Despite myself I was beginning to get used to Isabella's company, to her jibes and to the light she had brought into that house. If things continued this way, my worst fears were going to come true and we'd end up being friends. | Carlos Ruiz Zafón | ||
| 307cecf | A man must have vices, expensive ones if possible. Otherwise when he reaches old age he will have nothing to be redeemed from. In fact, I'm going to have one with you, what the hell! | Carlos Ruiz Zafón | ||
| de4f8f3 | She had around her a burning aura of loneliness. | Carlos Ruiz Zafón | ||
| 78bf8ee | wm ldhy t`rfh 'nt? '`rf 'kthr mnk bkthyr fym yt`lq blns w lmsy'l ldnywy@. wkm y`lmn frwyd , flmr'@ trGb b`ks m tfkr bh 'w tw'kd `lyh. w hdh y`ny 'nh l twjd 'y mshkl@ Tlqan , dh tm`n fy l'mr jydan 'm lrjl , km y`lm ljmy` fykhD` ltnbyht jhzh ltnsly w lhDmy | Carlos Ruiz Zafón | ||
| ebd03e2 | And so, under cover of midnight, a couple of Sugus, and the spell of memories that were threatening to disappear in the mist of time, Fermin began to connect the threads that would weave the end and the beginning of our story.... | Carlos Ruiz Zafón | ||
| ae8fa0d | S'dbata vinagi se spotaiva toku zad 'g'la. Dosushch kato kradets, prostitutka ili prodavach na lotariini bileti. Onova, koeto s'dbata nikoga ne pravi, sa viziti po domovete. Chovek triabva sam da t'rchi sled neia. | Carlos Ruiz Zafón | ||
| 5a24dee | hl t`rf 'jml m fy lqlwb lmHTm@? nh ttHTm blf`l mr@ wHd@ fqT , wkl m yHl bh b`dy'dh mjrd khdwsh | Carlos Ruiz Zafón | ||
| 5058b73 | l shy qdr `l~ lt'thyr fy lqr~ 'kthr mn lktb l'wl ldhy yms qlbh Hqan | Carlos Ruiz Zafón | ||
| f7b8b79 | In my world death was like a nameless and incomprehensible hand, a door-to-door salesman who took away mothers, beggars, or ninety-year-old neighbors, like a hellish lottery. But I couldn't absorb the idea that death could actually walk by my side, with a human face and a heart that was poisoned with hatred, that death could be dressed in a uniform or raincoat, queue up at the cinema, laugh in bars, or take his children out for a walk to Ci.. | war | Carlos Ruiz Zafón | |
| bc94d6c | Tras somera inspeccion, Jorge de Leon dictamino que el cuaderno habia sido compuesto en una lengua ajena a la cristiandad y ordeno que sus hombres fueran a buscar a un impresor llamado Raimundo de Sempere que tenia un modesto taller junto al portal de Santa Ana y que, habiendo viajado en su juventud, conocia mas lenguas de las que eran aconsejables para un cristiano de bien. | Carlos Ruiz Zafón | ||
| 759a92f | Television, my dear Daniel, is the Antichrist, and I can assure you that after only three or four generations, people will no longer even know how to fart on their own and humans will return to living in caves, to medieval savagery, and to the general state of imbecility that slugs overcame back in the Pleistocene era. Our world will not die as a result of the bomb, as the papers say, it will die of laughter, of banality, of making a joke o.. | Carlos Ruiz Zafón | ||
| 4cad71d | For me those enchanted pages will always be the ones I found among the passageways of the Cemetery of Forgotten Books. | Carlos Ruiz Zafón | ||
| 9d66b68 | I threw up my breakfast, my dinner, and a good amount of the anger I was carrying with me. | Carlos Ruiz Zafón | ||
| 166ada5 | I let the remainder of the morning drift by between the alchemy of the music and the perfume of books, | Carlos Ruiz Zafón | ||
| 0dc954d | n 'fDl Tryq@ ltfdy tmrd lfqr, hy lsmH lhm btqlyd l'Gny | Carlos Ruiz Zafón | ||
| 9bb6089 | nHn nw'ss frDytn `l~ nmym@ rdyy'@ , f`ndm ySf ljmy` 'Hdan `l~ 'nh Gwl , fhnk Htmln : m 'nh qdys 'w nhm yzyfwn lHky@ | Carlos Ruiz Zafón | ||
| 4271112 | 'm lrjl, km y`lm ljmy` , ykhD` ltnbyht jhzh ltnsly wlhDmy | Carlos Ruiz Zafón | ||
| 7cc73cc | man is a social animal, characterized by cronyism, nepotism, corruption, and gossip. That's the intrinsic blueprint for our 'ethical behavior,'" he argued. "It's pure biology." | Carlos Ruiz Zafón | ||
| 1555c8d | In this manner, secretly, ....let the years go by, silencing their hearts and souls to the point where, from so much keeping quiet, they forgot the words with which to express their real feelings and became strangers... | Carlos Ruiz Zafón | ||
| d3f8866 | Like the good ape he is, man is a social animal, characterized by cronyism, nepotism, corruption and gossip. | Carlos Ruiz Zafón | ||
| aeeb5dc | Anyone can make a baby, but it takes a man to be a father.' This is what they had told me all my life. It was the language of survival, a myth that helped us cope with the human sacrifice that finds us no matter our manhood. As though our hands were ever our own. | Ta-Nehisi Coates | ||
| 904d5a5 | Time is eternity and eternity is time, just as long as you yourself don't make them different | Angelus Silesius | ||
| 5134a67 | I know God couldn't live a moment without me; if I should disappear, He would die, destitute | Angelus Silesius | ||
| abf16d1 | Puedo vivir con tu odio --dijo a la puerta cerrada--, pero no puedo vivir sin ti. | Julia Quinn | ||
| 7b320b7 | No man has known perfect felicity, Until his otherness is drowned in unity | Angelus Silesius | ||
| cd43b19 | God is a flowing well which constantly may pour Into his whole Creation, and yet be as before. | Angelus Silesius | ||
| f9a12d9 | When the blade dulled, he sharpened it on the rock, an experience he admired-the surface that dulled it could refresh it as well. | Chris Offutt | ||
| 44580a3 | When anger rises, think of the consequences. | Anger management | ||
| d0361e1 | I love you, and I love the world, and I love it more with every new inch I discover. But you are a black boy, and you must be responsible for your body in a way that other boys cannot know. Indeed, you must be responsible for the worst actions of other black bodies, which, somehow, will always be assigned to you. And you must be responsible for the bodies of the powerful -- the policeman who cracks you with a nightstick will quickly find hi.. | Ta-Nehisi Coates | ||
| a0c4cb2 | There was before you, and then there was after, and in this after, you were the God I'd never had. I submitted before your needs, and I knew then that I must survive for something more than survival's sake. I must survive for you. | Ta-Nehisi Coates | ||
| 637e4f1 | What I wanted was to put as much distance between you and that blinding fear as possible. | Ta-Nehisi Coates |