Quotes by Carlos Ruiz Zafón

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

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, theres no stopping her.

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

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

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

We all give up great expectations along the way.

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.

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

One of the pitfalls of childhood is that one doesnt 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.

People talk too much. Humans arent descended from monkeys. They come from parrots.

Few things are more deceptive than memories.

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

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

We are willing to believe anything other than the truth.

Evil presupposes a moral decision, intention, and some forethought. A moran or a lout, howeverm doesnt stop to think or reason.

The dead never go to their own funeral.

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. Its only natural, and you will have to find the right balance. Having said that, let me add that this particular old woman hasnt been collecting only years; she has also collected stories, and none sadder or more terrible than the one shes about to tell you. You have been at the heart of this story without knowing it until today ...

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)

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.

Making money isnt hard in itself,whats hard is to earn it doing something worth devoting your life to