“I don't suppose you have many friends. Neither do I. I don't trust people who say they have a lot of friends. It's a sure sign that they don't really know anyone.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, quote from The Angel's Game
“Every book has a soul, the soul of the person who wrote it and the soul of those who read it and dream about it.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, quote from The Angel's Game
“I stepped into the bookshop and breathed in that perfume of paper and magic that strangely no one had ever thought of bottling.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, quote from The Angel's Game
“Don't be afraid of being scared. To be afraid is a sign of common sense. Only complete idiots are not afraid of anything.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, quote from The Angel's Game
“Envy is the religion of the mediocre. It comforts them, it soothes their worries, and finally it rots their souls, allowing them to justify their meanness and their greed until they believe these to be virtues. Such people are convinced that the doors of heaven will be opened only to poor wretches like themselves who go through life without leaving any trace but their threadbare attempts to belittle others and to exclude - and destroy if possible - those who, by the simple fact of their existence, show up their own poorness of spirit, mind, and guts. Blessed be the one at whom the fools bark, because his soul will never belong to them.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, quote from The Angel's Game
“Do you know the best thing about broken hearts? They can only really break once the rest is just scratches.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, quote from The Angel's Game
“Silence makes idiots seem wise even for a minute.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, quote from The Angel's Game
“Poetry is written with tears, fiction with blood, and history with invisible ink.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, quote from The Angel's Game
“We spend a good part of our lives dreaming, especially when we're awake.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, quote from The Angel's Game
“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.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, quote from The Angel's Game
“I swim against the tide because I like to annoy.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, quote from The Angel's Game
“Over time, loneliness gets inside you and doesn't go away.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, quote from The Angel's Game
“The only way you can truly get to know an author is through the trail of ink he leaves behind him. The person you think you see is only an empty character: truth is always hidden in fiction.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, quote from The Angel's Game
“We all give up great expectations along the way.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, quote from The Angel's Game
“Nothing important is learned; it is simply remembered.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, quote from The Angel's Game
“Literature, at least good literature, is science tempered with the blood of art. Like architecture or music.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, quote from The Angel's Game
“It's curious how easy it is to tell a piece of paper what you don't dare say to someone's face.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, quote from The Angel's Game
“I decided that my existence would be one of books and silence.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, quote from The Angel's Game
“Human beings believe just as they breathe - in order to survive.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, quote from The Angel's Game
“I turned you into a stranger in order to forget you and now I'm the stranger.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, quote from The Angel's Game
“I'm not talking to anyone, I'm delivering a monologue. It's the inebriated man's prerogative.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, quote from The Angel's Game
“I think you judge yourself too severely, a quality that always distinguishes people of true worth.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, quote from The Angel's Game
“Nothing is fair. The most one can hope is for things to be logical. Justice is a rare illness in a world that is otherwise a picture of health.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, quote from The Angel's Game
“You end up becoming someone you see in the eyes of those you love.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, quote from The Angel's Game
“It seems that in the advanced stages of stupidity, a lack of ideas is compensated for by an excess of ideologies.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, quote from The Angel's Game
“We think we understand a song's lyrics but what makes us believe in them, or not, is the music”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, quote from The Angel's Game
“May I offer you something? A small glass of cyanide?”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, quote from The Angel's Game
“Every work of art is aggressive, Isabella. And every artist's life is a small war or a large one, beginning with oneself and one's limitations. To achieve anything you must first have ambition and then talent, knowledge, and finally the opportunity.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, quote from The Angel's Game
“The most despicable humans are the ones who always feel virtuous and look down on the rest of the world.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, quote from The Angel's Game
“Everything is a tale, Martin. What we believe, what we know, what we remember, even what we dream. Everything is a story, a narrative, a sequence of events with characters communicating an emotional content. We only accept as true what can be narrated.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, quote from The Angel's Game
Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Born place: in Barcelona, Spain
Born date September 25, 1964
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“The ground in front of his camp was ideal for deploying the army for action. The low hill on which the camp stood was of just the right width, on the side facing the enemy, for the legions to occupy in battle formation; on each flank it descended steeply to the plain, while in front it formed a slight ridge and then sloped gently down. On either side of the hill Caesar had a trench dug, running for about six hundred and fifty yards at right angles to the line along which the troops would be drawn up, and placed redoubts and artillery at both ends of each trench, to prevent the enemy from using their numerical superiority to envelop his men from the flanks while they were fighting. He left the two newly enrolled legions in camp, to be used as reinforcements wherever they were needed, and drew up the other six in front in line of battle. The enemy also had marched out and deployed for action.”
― Gaius Julius Caesar, quote from The Conquest of Gaul
“The down-and-out, who flocked to Jesus when he lived on earth, no longer feel welcome. How did Jesus, the only perfect person in history, manage to attract the notoriously imperfect? And what keeps us from following in his steps today?”
― Philip Yancey, quote from The Jesus I Never Knew
“I have always been willful and stubborn. It is one of my greatest sins."
"But is it a sin? If it allows you to survive? Endure? Prevail?”
― Robin LaFevers, quote from Mortal Heart
“In an instant he saw the delusion of his five hundred years. He was not looking into a box; he was looking out of one. All these centuries his mind, his body, his world had been a box of horrors. He took one last breath, then pushed open the lid of his prison and escaped.”
― Frances Hardinge, quote from A Face Like Glass
“When he lay beside me with his dog-breath sighs, it was if he was saying, Give me your sadness. I will take it, as much as you need. If it kills us both, so be it. I am here.”
― Luis Carlos Montalván, quote from Until Tuesday: A Wounded Warrior and the Golden Retriever Who Saved Him
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