Quotes by Carlos Ruiz Zafon

“Ben invented mathematical theories that even he didn't manage to remember and wrote such bizarre tales of adventure that he ended up destroying them a week after they were finished, embarrassed at ...”

“I knew then that I would devote every minute we had left together to making her happy, to repairing the pain I had caused her and returning to her what I never known how to give her. These pages wi...”

“Man is a moral animal abandoned in an amoral universe and condemned to a finite existence with no other prupose than to perpetuate the natural cycle of the species.”

“To truly hate is an art one learns with time.”

“Man's meanness is a fuse in search of a flame.”

“I could tell you it's the heart, but what is really killing him is loneliness. Memories are worse than bullets.”

“Now he knew that any memories he might cherish during the last years of his life would be only fictions from a biography he'd never lived.”

“I handed the photo back to her. The caretaker gazed at it as if it were a lucky charm, a return ticket to her youth.”

“Sometimes memories follow you wherever you go-you don't need to take them with you.”

“Silence makes idiots seem wise even for a minute.”

“The city was asleep, and the bookshop felt like a boat adrift in a sea of silence and shadows.”

“The day I charge an unbeliever like you for the word of God will be the day I'm struck dead by lightning, and with good reason.”

“An intellectual is usually someone who isn't exactly distinguished by his intellect," Corelli asserted. "he claims that label to compensate for his inadequacies. It's as old as that saying : "Tell ...”

“All 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 finite existence with...”

“Justice is an affectation of perspective, not a universal value.”

“And as he watched them walk out of the orphanage, Thomas Carter would think of their lives as the blank pages of a book in which he had written the initial chapters of a story he would never be all...”

“[He] was a brilliant man. People tend to become wary of individuals like him because their brilliance reminds them of their own mediocrity. Envy is a blind man who wants to pull out your eyes.”

“So what is it you're going to show me today?""A number of things. In fact, what I'm going to show you is part of a story. Didn't you tell me the other day that what you like to do is read?"Bea nodd...”

“Everything in life is nonsense. It's just a question of perspective.”

“Whether we realize it or not, most of us define ourselves by opposing rather than by favoring something or someone. To put it another way, it is easier to react than to act. Nothing arouses a passi...”