Quotes by Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

. . .sometimes one feels freer speaking to a stranger than to people one knows. Why is that?” “Probably because a stranger sees us the way we are, not as he wishes to think we are.

People

Thinking

Wish

… deep down nobody is bad, only frightened.

Deep Down

Frightened

…until that moment I had not understood that this was a story about lonely people, about absence and loss, and that that was why I had taken refuge in it until it became confused with my own life, like someone who has escaped into the pages of a novel because those whom he needs to love seem nothing more than ghosts inhabiting the mind of a stranger.

Confused

Lonely

Taken

A book is a mirror that offers us only what we already carry inside us.

Book

Mirrors

Shadow Of The Wind

A man must have vices, expensive ones if possible. Otherwise when he reaches old age he will have nothing to be redeemed from.

Age

Men

Vices

A secret’s worth depends on the people from whom it must be kept.

Keeping Secrets

Kept Secrets

People

A writer never forgets the first time he accepted a few coins or a word of praise in exchange for a story. He will never forget the sweet poison of vanity in his blood and the belief that, if he succeeds in not letting anyone discover his lack of talent, the dream of literature will provide him with a roof over his head, a hot meal at the end of the day, and what he covets the most: his name printed on a miserable piece of paper that surely will outlive him. A writer is condemned to remember that moment, because from then on he is doomed and his soul has a price.

Blood

Dream

Sweet

After a while it occurred to me that between the covers of each of those books lay a boundless universe waiting to be discovered while beyond those walls, in the outside world, people allowed life to pass by in afternoons of football and radio soaps, content to do little more than gaze at their navels.

Book

Football

Wall

All I know is that once Julián told the kids in the building that he had a sister only he could see. He said she came out of mirrors as if she were made of thin air and that she lived with Satan himself in a palace at the bottom of a lake.

Kids

Lakes

Mirrors

All true stories begin and end in a cemetery” – The Shadow of the Wind

Shadow

Stories

Wind

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Absence

Age

Alive

Ambition

Angel

Animal

Annoying

Approval

Army

Art

Atheist

Balls

Believe

Blood

Blow

Book

Boredom

Breathe

Bridges

Broken

Bullets

Care

Ceilings

Chances In Life

Character

Childhood

Cities

Clay

Coffee

Coffins

Common Sense

Compassion

Confused

Confusion

Country

Coward

Creating

Curse

Dark

Deceptive

Deeds

Deep Down

Desire

Destiny

Devil

Died

Different

Difficult

Disappear

Doe

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Quotes by Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

. . .sometimes one feels freer speaking to a stranger than to people one knows. Why is that?” “Probably because a stranger sees us the way we are, not as he wishes to think we are.

… deep down nobody is bad, only frightened.

A book is a mirror that offers us only what we already carry inside us.

A man must have vices, expensive ones if possible. Otherwise when he reaches old age he will have nothing to be redeemed from.

A secret’s worth depends on the people from whom it must be kept.

All I know is that once Julián told the kids in the building that he had a sister only he could see. He said she came out of mirrors as if she were made of thin air and that she lived with Satan himself in a palace at the bottom of a lake.

All true stories begin and end in a cemetery” – The Shadow of the Wind

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