Carlos Ruiz Zafón Quotes - Page 3

There are worse prisons than words.

As I walked, I ran my fingers along the spines of hundreds of books. I let myself be imbued with the smell, with the light that filtered through the cracks or from the glass lanterns embedded in the wooden structure, floating among mirrors and shadows.

Books hold no passports. There's only one true literary tradition: the human.

To Senor Sempere, the best friend a book could ever have: you opened the doors to the world for me and showed me how to go through them.

Max had once read in one of his father's 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.

Ignatius B. Samson, welcome to the Cemetery of Forgotten Books.

But if you like, you can come share a tasty meal of bread, raisins, and fresh Burgos cheese. With that, and The Count of Monte Cristo, anyone can live to a hundred.

I was no longer able to hear the music that issues from a decent piece of prose.

Katrai grāmatai ir dvēsele - tā cilvēka dvēsele, kurš grāmatu sarakstījis, un to cilvēku dvēseles, kuri grāmatu lasījuši un kopā ar to sapņojuši.

Aryami Bose's home had been closed up for years, inhabited only by books and paintings, but the spectre of thousands of memories imprisoned between its walls still permeated the house.

Martin, at my age, eroticism is reduced to enjoying caramel custard and looking at widows' necks.' - Senor Sempere.

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.

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 they'd been dealt or to the way they had played them.

Ustedes, las mujeres, escuchan más al corazón y menos a la tontería - concluyó el sombrerero con tristeza - . Por eso viven más.

Lo mejor de las mujeres es descubrirlas.

Se enfrenta usted al enigma de la naturaleza, Daniel. La fémina, babel y laberinto. Si la deja usted pensar, está perdido. Recuerde: corazón caliente, mente fría. El código del seductor.

Jorge siempre viviría a la sombra de su privilegio, entre algodones y fracasos. Penélope, la preciosa Penélope, era mujer y por tanto tesoro, no tesorero. Julián, que tenía alma de poeta, y por tanto de asesino, reunía las cualidades.

Don't be afraid of being scared. To be afraid is a sign of common sense. Only complete idiots are not afraid of anything.

Few things leave a deeper mark on the reader, than the first book that finds its way to his heart.

I had never known the pleasure of reading, of exploring the recesses of the soul, of letting myself be carried away by imagination, beauty, and the mystery of fiction and language. For me all those things were born with that novel.