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Now he knew that any memories he might cherish during the last years of his life would be only fictions from a biography he'd never lived.

Now he knew that any memories he might cherish during the last years of his life would be only fictions from a biography he’d never lived.
– Carlos Ruiz Zafn

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  1. Jacinta never told Penelope that she loved her. The nurse knew that those who really love, love in silence, with deeds and not with words. – Carlos Ruiz Zafn
  2. Cherish the others in your life. Cherish your freedom to be yourself. Cherish your freedom to choose who you want to be, what you want to do next. – Jay Woodman
  3. In the haunted shade of the Ateneo, her hands wrote a curse on my skin that was to hound me for years. – Carlos Ruiz Zafn
  4. I could tell you it’s the heart, but what is really killing him is loneliness. Memories are worse than bullets. – Carlos Ruiz Zafn
  5. Sometimes memories follow you wherever you go-you don’t need to take them with you. – Carlos Ruiz Zafn
  6. we accept fictions as fictions, as things that might be true in their world, if not quite in ours. – Thomas C Foster
  7. Few things leave a deeper mark on the reader, than the first book that finds its way to his heart. – Carlos Ruiz Zafn
  8. He lost himself in the words and images conjured in his mind and for a while forgot … He found himself flying among stars and planets … – Carlos Ruiz Zafn
  9. As he took them in his arms, the crying of the babies permeated the night like a trail of blood calling out to a predator. – Carlos Ruiz Zafn
  10. nations never see themselves clearly in the mirror, much less when war preys on their minds – Carlos Ruiz Zafn
  11. Keep your dreams, you will never know when you need them – Carlos Ruiz Zafn
  12. Never trust girls who let themselves be touched right away. But even less those who need a priest for approval. – Carlos Ruiz Zafn
  13. Never trust anyone, Daniel, especially the people you admire. Those are the ones who will make you suffer the worst blows. – Carlos Ruiz Zafn
  14. Never trust he who trusts everyone. – Carlos Ruiz Zafn
  15. 1I smiled bitterly, a defeated man pitifully begging a God in whom he had never trusted. – Carlos Ruiz Zafn
  16. Never trust anyone Daniel, especially the people you admire – Carlos Ruiz Zafn
  17. Making money isn’t hard in itself,’ he complained. ‘What’s hard is to earn it doing something worth devoting one’s life to. – Carlos Ruiz Zafn
  18. Making money isn’t hard in itself… What’s hard is to earn it doing something worth devoting one’s life to. – Carlos Ruiz Zafn
  19. Whoever said that childhood is the happiest time of your life is a liar, or a fool. – Carlos Ruiz Zafn
  20. Life has enough torturers as it is, without you going around moonlighting as a Grand Inquisitor against yourself. – Carlos Ruiz Zafn
  21. God gives us life, but the world’s landlord is the devil…. – Carlos Ruiz Zafn
  22. I was raised among books, making invisible friends in pages that seemed cast from dust and whose smell I carry on my hands to this day. – Carlos Ruiz Zafn
  23. I still remember the day my father took me to the Cemetery of Forgotten Books for the first time. – Carlos Ruiz Zafn
  24. There are worse prisons than words. – Carlos Ruiz Zafn
  25. Books hold no passports. There’s only one true literary tradition: the human. – Carlos Ruiz Zafn
  26. 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 Zafn
  27. The day I die, all that was once mine will be yours, Julián, he would say. Except my dreams. – Carlos Ruiz Zafn
  28. Martin, at my age, ?????cism is reduced to enjoying caramel custard and looking at widows’ necks. – Carlos Ruiz Zafn
  29. Every piece of that marvelous world was a silent tear. – Carlos Ruiz Zafn
  30. Paris is the only city in the world where starving to death is still considered an art. – Carlos Ruiz Zafn
  31. -Do you think it’s dirty money?-All money is dirty. If it were clean nobody would want it. – Carlos Ruiz Zafn
  32. I imagine some people, like some toys, are born defective – which I suppose makes us all broken toys, don’t you think? – Carlos Ruiz Zafn
  33. Julian spoke with the clear, unequivocal lucidity of madmen who have escaped the hypocrisy of having to abide by a reality that makes no sense. – Carlos Ruiz Zafn
  34. You don’t know what thirst is until you drink for the first time. – Carlos Ruiz Zafn
  35. Over time, loneliness gets inside you and doesn’t go away. – Carlos Ruiz Zafn
  36. In small towns, news travels at the speed of boredom. – Carlos Ruiz Zafn
  37. The day I charge an unbeliever like you for the word of God will be the day I’m struck dead by lightning, and with good reason. – Carlos Ruiz Zafn
  38. And here I was thinking you were a bit slow, what with so much asking and not knowing anything. – Carlos Ruiz Zafn
  39. A secret’s worth depends on the people from whom it must be kept. – Carlos Ruiz Zafn
  40. All business opportunities stem from someone else’s inability to resolve a simple and inevitable problem. – Carlos Ruiz Zafn

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