Carlos Ruiz ZafonI've always said that idleness dulls the spirit. We have to keep the brain busy, or at least the hands if we don't have a brain.372Thought
Carlos Ruiz ZafonMan...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… ▶362Reflection
Carlos Ruiz ZafonThere are no second chances in life, except to feel remorse. ✨ Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2005). The Shadow of the Wind, p.344, Penguin362Life
Carlos Ruiz ZafonAll interpretation or observation of reality is necessarily fiction. In this case, the problem is that man is a moral animal abandoned in an amoral universe and condemned to a fin… ▶351HumanityLifePolitics
Carlos Ruiz ZafonThe only way you can truly get to know an author is through the trail of ink he leaves behind him. The person you think you see is only an empty character: truth is always hidden … ▶351ThoughtTruth
Carlos Ruiz ZafonAll true stories begin and end in a cemetery - The Shadow of the Wind362Truth
Carlos Ruiz ZafonSilence makes idiots seem wise even for a minute.374Time
Carlos Ruiz ZafonFew things are more deceptive than memories. ✨ Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2005). The Shadow of the Wind, p.212, Penguin363Sadness
Carlos Ruiz ZafonBut in good time you'll see that sometimes what matters isn't what one gives but what one gives up. ✨ Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2005). The Shadow of the Wind, p.178, Penguin375Time
Carlos Ruiz ZafonDo you know the best thing about broken hearts? They can only really break once the rest is just scratches.342Love
Carlos Ruiz ZafonDeath does that: it makes everyone feel sentimental. When we stand in front of a coffin, we all see only what is good or what we want to see.331DeathTime
Carlos Ruiz ZafonThey 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… ▶375DeathLifeTime
Carlos Ruiz ZafonOne of the pitfalls of childhood is that one doesn't have to understand something to feel it. By the time the mind is able to comprehend what has happened, the wounds of the heart… ▶354LoveReadingThought
Carlos Ruiz ZafonAs it unfolded, the structure of the story began to remind me of one of those Russian dolls that contain innumerable ever-smaller dolls within. Step by step the narrative split in… ▶354ReflectionThought
Carlos Ruiz ZafonWe seem to live in a world where forgetting and oblivion are an industry in themselves and very, very few people are remotely interested or aware of their own recent history, much… ▶376HumanityThought
Carlos Ruiz ZafonThere's no such thing as dead languages, only dormant minds. ✨ Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2005). The Shadow of the Wind, p.24, Penguin354DeathThought
Carlos Ruiz ZafonI 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. ✨ Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2005). The Shado… ▶365Reading
Carlos Ruiz ZafonPeople with a meagre soul always try to make others feel small too. ✨ Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2012). The Prisoner of Heaven: A Novel, p.14, Harper Collins377HumanityReading
Carlos Ruiz ZafonAnd here I was thinking you were a bit slow, what with so much asking and not knowing anything. ✨ Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2005). The Shadow of the Wind, p.74, Penguin322Thought
Carlos Ruiz ZafonMemories are worse than bullets. ✨ Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2005). The Shadow of the Wind, p.407, Penguin377Hope
Carlos Ruiz ZafonNever trust anyone, Daniel, especially the people you admire. Those are the ones who will make you suffer the worst blows. ✨ Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2005). The Shadow of the Wind… ▶333Humanity
Carlos Ruiz ZafonIf you really want to possess a woman, you must think like her, and the first thing to do is win over her soul. The rest, that sweet, soft wrapping that steals away your senses an… ▶322Thought
Carlos Ruiz ZafonIt is difficult to hate an idea. That requires a certain intellectual discipline and a slightly obsessive, sick mind. There aren’t too many of those. It’s much easier to hate some… ▶333Thought
Carlos Ruiz Zafonsomethings can only be seen in the shadows ✨ Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2005). The Shadow of the Wind, p.15, Penguin366Politics
Carlos Ruiz ZafonI discovered that seventeen-year-old girls have such huge verbal energy that their brain drives them to expend it every twenty seconds. On the third day I decided I had to find he… ▶355Thought
Carlos Ruiz ZafonEverything is a tale, Martin. What we believe, what we know, what we remember, even what we dream. Everything is a story, a narrative, a sequence of events with characters communi… ▶334Truth
Carlos Ruiz ZafonAre you not tempted to create a story for which men and women would live and die, for which they would be capable of killing and allowing them to be killed, of sacrificing and con… ▶367Death
Carlos Ruiz ZafonKeep your dreams, you never know when you might need them.323Politics
Carlos Ruiz ZafonPoetry is written with tears, fiction with blood, and history with invisible ink.356Truth
Carlos Ruiz ZafonMoney is like any other virus: once it has rotted the soul of the person who houses it, it sets off in search of new blood. ✨ Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2005). The Shadow of the Win… ▶323Politics
