Carlos Ruiz Zafón quotes

Destiny is usually just around the corner. Like a thief, a hooker, or a lottery vendor: its three …Destiny is usually just around the corner. Like a thief, a hooker, or a lottery vendor: its three most common personifications. But what destiny does not do is home visits. You have to go for it.

Inspirational

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

Book Truth

Don't be afraid of being scared. To be afraid is a sign of common sense. Only complete idiots are …Don't be afraid of being scared. To be afraid is a sign of common sense. Only complete idiots are not afraid of anything.

Fear

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

Funny Truth

Sometimes one feels freer speaking to a stranger than to people one knows... Probably because a …Sometimes one feels freer speaking to a stranger than to people one knows... Probably because a stranger sees us the way we are, not as he wishes to think we are.

Perception People

I don't suppose you have many friends. Neither do I. I don't trust people who say they have a lot …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.

Trust Friendship

Every book has a soul, the soul of the person who wrote it and the soul of those who read it and …Every book has a soul, the soul of the person who wrote it and the soul of those who read it and dream about it.

Dreams Soul Book

The words with which a child's heart is poisoned, whether through malice or through ignorance, …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.

Memory Heart Soul Ignorance

Paris is the only city in the world where starving to death is still considered an …Paris is the only city in the world where starving to death is still considered an art.

Art

A secret's worth depends on the people from whom it must be …A secret's worth depends on the people from whom it must be kept.

People Secret Short

Presents are made for the pleasure of who gives them, not the merits of who receives …Presents are made for the pleasure of who gives them, not the merits of who receives them.

Pleasure

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

Life Short Truth Memory






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

Writing

I stepped into the bookshop and breathed in that perfume of paper and magic that strangely no one …I stepped into the bookshop and breathed in that perfume of paper and magic that strangely no one had ever thought of bottling.

I was raised among books, making invisible friends in pages that seemed cast from dust and whose …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.

Literature Book Reading