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You talk as if Bea were a trophy.''No, as if she were a blessing,' Fermin corrected.

You talk as if Bea were a trophy.”No, as if she were a blessing,’ Fermin corrected.
– Carlos Ruiz Zafn

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  1. 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. – Carlos Ruiz Zafn
  2. 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
  3. I still remember the day my father took me to the Cemetery of Forgotten Books for the first time. – Carlos Ruiz Zafn
  4. There are worse prisons than words. – Carlos Ruiz Zafn
  5. Books hold no passports. There’s only one true literary tradition: the human. – Carlos Ruiz Zafn
  6. Ignatius B. Samson, welcome to the Cemetery of Forgotten Books. – Carlos Ruiz Zafn
  7. I was no longer able to hear the music that issues from a decent piece of prose. – Carlos Ruiz Zafn
  8. 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
  9. nations never see themselves clearly in the mirror, much less when war preys on their minds – Carlos Ruiz Zafn
  10. 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 Zafn
  11. The day I die, all that was once mine will be yours, Julián, he would say. Except my dreams. – Carlos Ruiz Zafn
  12. Martin, at my age, ?????cism is reduced to enjoying caramel custard and looking at widows’ necks. – Carlos Ruiz Zafn
  13. Every piece of that marvelous world was a silent tear. – Carlos Ruiz Zafn
  14. Paris is the only city in the world where starving to death is still considered an art. – Carlos Ruiz Zafn
  15. Few things leave a deeper mark on the reader, than the first book that finds its way to his heart. – Carlos Ruiz Zafn
  16. 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
  17. 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
  18. -Do you think it’s dirty money?-All money is dirty. If it were clean nobody would want it. – Carlos Ruiz Zafn
  19. 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
  20. 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
  21. You don’t know what thirst is until you drink for the first time. – Carlos Ruiz Zafn
  22. If you don’t trust a novelist, who are you going to trust? – Carlos Ruiz Zafn
  23. 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
  24. 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
  25. Never trust anyone, Daniel, especially the people you admire. Those are the ones who will make you suffer the worst blows. – Carlos Ruiz Zafn
  26. Never trust he who trusts everyone. – Carlos Ruiz Zafn
  27. as long as we are being remembered, we remain alive – Carlos Ruiz Zafn
  28. Over time, loneliness gets inside you and doesn’t go away. – Carlos Ruiz Zafn
  29. Never trust anyone Daniel, especially the people you admire – Carlos Ruiz Zafn
  30. In small towns, news travels at the speed of boredom. – Carlos Ruiz Zafn
  31. To truly hate is an art one learns with time. – Carlos Ruiz Zafn
  32. I could tell you it’s the heart, but what is really killing him is loneliness. Memories are worse than bullets. – Carlos Ruiz Zafn
  33. 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
  34. Sometimes memories follow you wherever you go-you don’t need to take them with you. – Carlos Ruiz Zafn
  35. Silence makes idiots seem wise even for a minute. – Carlos Ruiz Zafn
  36. 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
  37. And here I was thinking you were a bit slow, what with so much asking and not knowing anything. – Carlos Ruiz Zafn
  38. A secret’s worth depends on the people from whom it must be kept. – Carlos Ruiz Zafn
  39. All business opportunities stem from someone else’s inability to resolve a simple and inevitable problem. – Carlos Ruiz Zafn
  40. God gives us life, but the world’s landlord is the devil…. – Carlos Ruiz Zafn

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