BiographyType: Novelist Born: 25 September 1964 Died: Carlos Ruiz Zafón is the author of six novels, including the international phenomenon "The Shadow of the Wind", and "The Angel’s Game". His work has been published in more than forty different languages, and honoured with numerous international awards. He divides his time between Barcelona, Spain, and Los Angeles, California. |
People tend to complicate their own lives, as if living weren't already complicated enough.
Driven by a wish to save Tomás from a life of penury and misunderstanding, Fermin had decided that he needed to develop my friend's latent conversational and social skills.
Like the good ape he is, man is a social animal, characterized by cronyism, nepotism, corruption, and gossip. That's the intrinsic blueprint for our ethical behavior.
Las estadÃsticas lo demuestran: más gente muere en la cama que en la trinchera.
Bea dice que el arte de leer se está muriendo muy lentamente, que es un ritual Ãntimo, que un libro es un espejo y que sólo podemos encontrar en él lo que ya llevamos dentro, que al leer ponemos la mente y el alma, y que esos son bienes cada dÃa más escasos.
-Do you think it's dirty money?
-All money is dirty. If it were clean nobody would want it.
No valÃa la pena perder el tiempo en intentar cambiar el mundo; bastaba con evitar que el mundo lo cambiase a uno.
- Lo difÃcil no es ganar dinero sin más - se lamentaba - . Lo difÃcil es ganarlo haciendo algo a lo que valga la pena dedicarle la vida.