Carlos Ruiz Zafón Quotes

The moment you stop to think about whether you love someone, you've already stopped loving that person forever.

~ Carlos Ruiz Zafón

Man...heats up like a lightbulb: red hot in the twinkling of an eye and cold again in a flash. The female, on the other hand...heats up like an iron. Slowly, over a low heat, like tasty stew. But then, once she has heated up, there's no stopping her.

~ Carlos Ruiz Zafón

One loves truly only once in a lifetime, Julian, even if one isn’t aware of it.

~ Carlos Ruiz Zafón

Most of us have the good or bad fortune of seeing our lives fall apart so slowly we barely notice.

~ Carlos Ruiz Zafón

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

~ Carlos Ruiz Zafón

We all give up great expectations along the way.

~ Carlos Ruiz Zafón

Every book, every volume you see here, has a soul. The soul of the person who wrote it and of those who read it and lived and dreamed with it. Every time a book changes hands, every time someone runs his eyes down its pages, its spirit grows and strengthens.

~ Carlos Ruiz Zafón

that as long as we are being remembered, we remain alive.

~ Carlos Ruiz Zafón

One of the pitfalls of childhood is that one doesn't have to understand something to feel it. By the time the mind is able to comprehend what has happened, the wounds of the heart are already too deep.

~ Carlos Ruiz Zafón

People talk too much. Humans aren't descended from monkeys. They come from parrots.

~ Carlos Ruiz Zafón

Nothing important is learned, it is simply remembered.

~ Carlos Ruiz Zafón

Few things are more deceptive than memories.

~ Carlos Ruiz Zafón

Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you.

~ Carlos Ruiz Zafón

There are few reasons for telling the truth, but for lying the number is infinite.

~ Carlos Ruiz Zafón

We are willing to believe anything other than the truth.

~ Carlos Ruiz Zafón

Evil presupposes a moral decision, intention, and some forethought. A moran or a lout, howeverm doesn't stop to think or reason.

~ Carlos Ruiz Zafón

The dead never go to their own funeral.

~ Carlos Ruiz Zafón

The fact is that nothing is more difficult to believe than the truth; conversely, nothing seduces like the power of lies, the greater the better. It's only natural, and you will have to find the right balance. Having said that, let me add that this particular old woman hasn't been collecting only years; she has also collected stories, and none sadder or more terrible than the one she's about to tell you. You have been at the heart of this story without knowing it until today ...

~ Carlos Ruiz Zafón

Cada vez que un libro cambia de manos, cada vez que alguien desliza la mirada por sus páginas, su espíritu crece y se hace fuerte. (Sempere)

~ Carlos Ruiz Zafón

If there is a god, or hundreds of them, I hope they will forgive me for the harm I may have inflicted on you by telling you exactly what happened.

~ Carlos Ruiz Zafón

Don't be bashful, we're among gentlemen. It's a known fact that we men are the missing link between the pirate and the pig.

~ Carlos Ruiz Zafón

Making money isn't hard in itself,what's hard is to earn it doing something worth devoting your life to

~ Carlos Ruiz Zafón

Time has taught me not to lose hope, yet not to trust too much in hope either.

~ Carlos Ruiz Zafón

I couldn't help thinking that if I, by pure chance, had found a whole universe in a single unknown book, buried in that endless necropolis, tens of thousands more would remain unexplored, forgotten forever.

~ Carlos Ruiz Zafón

Remember me, even if it's only in a corner and secretly. Don't let me go.

~ Carlos Ruiz Zafón

I can't die yet, doctor. Not yet. I have things to do. Afterwords I'll have a whole lifetime in which to die.

~ Carlos Ruiz Zafón

It is a part of our nature to survive. Faith is an instinctive response to aspects of existence that we cannot explain by any other means, be it the moral void we perceive in the universe, the certainty of death, the mystery of the origin of things, the meaning of our lives, or the absence of meaning. These are basic and extremely simple aspects of existence, but our limitations prevent us from responding in an unequivocal way and for that reason we generate an emotional response, as a defense mechanism. It's pure biology.

~ Carlos Ruiz Zafón

A story is a letter that the author writes to himself, to tell himself things that he would be unable to discover otherwise.

~ Carlos Ruiz Zafón

If you really want to possess a woman, you must think like her, and the first thing to do is win over her soul. The rest, that sweet, soft wrapping that steals away your senses and your virtue, is a bonus.

~ Carlos Ruiz Zafón

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.

~ Carlos Ruiz Zafón

Senor Sempere believed that God lives, to a smaller or greater extent, in books, and that is why he devoted his life to sharing them, to protecting them, and to making sure their pages, like our memories and our desires, are never lost.

~ Carlos Ruiz Zafón

Do you know what religion is, Martin, my friend?-I can barely remember Lord's Prayer.-A beautiful and well-crafted prayer. Poetry aside, a religion is really a moral code that is expressed through legends,myths, or any type of literary device in order to establish a system of beliefs, values , and rules with which to regulate a culture or a society.

~ Carlos Ruiz Zafón

People tend to complicate their own lives, as if living weren't already complicated enough.

~ Carlos Ruiz Zafón

Time goes faster the more hollow it is. Lives with no meaning go straight past you, like trains that don’t stop at your station.

~ Carlos Ruiz Zafón

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.

~ Carlos Ruiz Zafón

Max had once read in one of his father's books that some childhood images become engraved in the mind like photographs, like scenes you can return to again and again and will always remember, no matter how much time goes by.

~ Carlos Ruiz Zafón

Bea says that the art of reading is slowly dying, that it's an intimate ritual, that a book is a mirror that offers us only what we already carry inside us, that when we read, we do it with all our heart and mind, and great readers are becoming more scarce by the day.

~ Carlos Ruiz Zafón

In the shop we buy and sell them, but in truth books have no owner. Every book you see here has been somebody’s best friend.

~ Carlos Ruiz Zafón

I was raised among books, making invisible friends in pages that seemed cast from dust and whose smell I carry on my hands to this day.

~ Carlos Ruiz Zafón

Some like to believe it's the book that chooses the person.

~ Carlos Ruiz Zafón