Quotes of Carlos Ruiz Zafón - somelinesforyou

“ People tend to complicate their own lives, as if living weren’t already complicated enough. ”

- Carlos Ruiz Zafón

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

- Carlos Ruiz Zafón

“ Making money isn’t hard in itself… What’s hard is to earn it doing something worth devoting one’s life to. ”

- Carlos Ruiz Zafón

“ Making money isn’t hard in itself… What’s hard is to earn it doing something worth devoting one’s life to. ”

- Carlos Ruiz Zafón

“ Never trust he who trusts everyone. ”

- Carlos Ruiz Zafón

“ Making money isn’t hard in itself… What’s hard is to earn it doing something worth devoting one’s life to. ”

- Carlos Ruiz Zafón

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

- Carlos Ruiz Zafón

“ The moment you stop to think about whether you love someone, you've already stopped loving that person forever. ”

- Carlos Ruiz Zafón

“ 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, there's no stopping her. ”

- Carlos Ruiz Zafón

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

- Carlos Ruiz Zafón

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

- Carlos Ruiz Zafón

“ We all give up great expectations along the way. ”

- Carlos Ruiz Zafón

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

- Carlos Ruiz Zafón

“ 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. ”

- Carlos Ruiz Zafón

“ One 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 are already too deep. ”

- Carlos Ruiz Zafón

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

- Carlos Ruiz Zafón

“ People talk too much. Humans aren't descended from monkeys. They come from parrots. ”

- Carlos Ruiz Zafón

“ 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, there's no stopping her. ”

- Carlos Ruiz Zafón

“ Nothing important is learned; it is simply remembered. ”

- Carlos Ruiz Zafón

“ Few things are more deceptive than memories. ”

- Carlos Ruiz Zafón

“ 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. ”

- Carlos Ruiz Zafón

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

- Carlos Ruiz Zafón

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

- Carlos Ruiz Zafón

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

- Carlos Ruiz Zafón

“ We are willing to believe anything other than the truth. ”

- Carlos Ruiz Zafón

“ Few things are more deceptive than memories. ”

- Carlos Ruiz Zafón

“ The dead never go to their own funeral. ”

- Carlos Ruiz Zafón

“ 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. It's only natural, and you will have to find the right balance. Having said that, let me add that this particular old woman hasn't been collecting only years; she has also collected stories, and none sadder or more terrible than the one she's about to tell you. You have been at the heart of this story without knowing it until today ... ”

- Carlos Ruiz Zafón

“ Don't be bashful; we're among gentlemen. It's a known fact that we men are the missing link between the pirate and the pig. ”

- Carlos Ruiz Zafón

“ I can't die yet, doctor. Not yet. I have things to do. Afterwords I'll have a whole lifetime in which to die. ”

- Carlos Ruiz Zafón
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