Carlos Ruiz Zafon Quotes

Destiny doesn't do home visits... you have to go for it yourself.

Keep your dreams, you never know when you might need them.

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.

The words with which a child's heart is poisoned, whether through malice or through ignorance, remain branded in his memory, and sooner or later they burn his soul.

There are two things in life you cannot choose. The first is your enemies; the second your family. Sometimes the difference between them is hard to see, but in the end time will show you that the cards you have been dealt could always have been worse.

somethings can only be seen in the shadows

Fools talk, cowards are silent, wise men listen.

Memories are worse than bullets.

...until that moment 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.

We are puppets of our subconscious desires.

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

Few things are more deceptive than memories.

Waiting is the rust of the soul.

It seems that in the advanced stages of stupidity, a lack of ideas is compensated for by an excess of ideologies.

There are people you remember and people you dream of.

I think you judge yourself too severely, a quality that always distinguishes people of true worth.

None of us are what we once were.

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

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

The air seemed poisoned with fear and hatred. People eyed on another suspiciously, and the streets smelled of a silence that knotted your stomach.

People with a meagre soul always try to make others feel small too.

It is impossible to survive in a prolonged state of reality.

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

It's up to you how you waste your time and money. I'm staying here to read: life's too short.

One mustn't dream of one's future; one must earn it.