Carlos Ruiz Zafon Quotes - Page 8

Whoever said that childhood is the happiest time of your life is a liar, or a fool.

Wine turns the wise man into a fool and the fool into a wise man.

Does the madman know he is mad? Or are the madmen those who insist o. Convincing him of his unreason in order to safeguard their own idea of reality?

You women listen more to your heart and less to all the nonsense. That's why you live longer.

Why is it that the less one has to say the more one says it in the most pompous and pedantic way possible?... Is it to fool the world or just to fool themselves?

He lost himself in the words and images conjured in his mind and for a while forgot ... He found himself flying among stars and planets.

I hoped my absence made them happy or at least made them forget that they weren't happy and never will be.

A book is a mirror that offers us only what we already carry inside us.

It's the student who makes the teacher, not the other way around.

As I walked, I ran my fingers along the spines of hundreds of books. I let myself be imbued with the smell, with the light that filtered through the cracks or from the glass lanterns embedded in the wooden structure, floating among mirrors and shadows.

When 'The Shadow of the Wind' became a success I had already been a working writer, I'd been through the ups and downs, I'd seen how it worked.

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.

They (fables) teach us that human beings learn and absorb ideas and concepts through narrative, through stories, not through lessons or theoretical speeches.

It's curious how easy it is to tell a piece of paper what you don't dare say to someone's face.

A good father. A man with a head, a heart, and a soul. A man capable of listening, of leading and respecting a child, and not of drowning his own defects in him. Someone whom a child will not only love because he's his father, but will also admire for the person he is. Someone he would want to grow up to resemble.

Write," he said. "I'll write to you as soon as I get there," answered Julian. "No. Not to me. Write books. Not letters. Write them for me, for Penelope.

You don't win a game by hitting the ball out of the court.

How many lost souls do You need, Lord, to satisfy Your hunger? the hatter asked. God, in His infinite silence, looked at him without blinking.

A Gentleman's agreement cannot be broken without breaking the person who has entered into it.

Contrary to what you believe, the earth does not revolve around the desires of your crotch.

Every labyrinth has its minotaur

He was a very private person, and sometimes it seemed to me that he was no longer interested in the world or in other people... I got the feeling that Julián was living in the past, locked in his memories. Julián lived within himself, for his books and inside them - a comfortable prison of his own design." "You say this as if you envied him." "There are worse prisons than words.

One of my ambitions has been to go back to what those great authors were doing then ... to bridge that sensibility of old Victorian Gothic tales and reconstruct them in a modern way.

Truth is, only the useless get to the top in this country.

Los Angeles is one of those places where somebodies become nobodies and nobodies become somebody.