Quotes by Carlos Ruiz Zafón

- Boys my age are boring. They have nothing to say and half of them seem like complete idiots.I was going to say that they didnt improve with age but didnt want to spoil her illusions.

Don Ricardo wanted a successor worthy of himself. Jorge would always be cocooned in the privileges of his class, hiding from his mediocrity in creature comforts. Penelope, the beautiful Penelope, was a woman, and therefore a treasure, not a treasurer. Julian, who had the soul of a poet, and therefore the soul of a murderer, fulfilled all the requirements. It was only a question of time.

Her tiny and organized handwriting reminded me of the tidiness of her desk, as if shed wanted to find in words the peace and safety that life hadnt wanted to grant her.

“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.”

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

“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 theyd been dealt or to the way they had played them.”

“Max had once read in one of his fathers 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.”

“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.”

“Few things are more deceptive than memories.”

“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)”

“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 ...”

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

“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.”

“I cant die yet, doctor. Not yet. I have things to do. Afterwords Ill have a whole lifetime in which to die.”

“Remember me, even if its only in a corner and secretly. Dont let me go.”