God gives us life, but the world’s landlord is the devil….
– Carlos Ruiz Zafn
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- In my schoolboy reveries, we were always two fugitives riding on the spine of a book, eager to escape into worlds of fiction and secondhand dreams. – Carlos Ruiz Zafn
- 1I smiled bitterly, a defeated man pitifully begging a God in whom he had never trusted. – Carlos Ruiz Zafn
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Whoever said that childhood is the happiest time of your life is a liar, or a fool. – Carlos Ruiz Zafn
- Life has enough torturers as it is, without you going around moonlighting as a Grand Inquisitor against yourself. – Carlos Ruiz Zafn
- God gives urge, urge gives pleasure, pleasure gives pains, pains gives fruits, fruits gives trees, trees die and go to hell! – Michael Bassey Johnson
- 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
- I still remember the day my father took me to the Cemetery of Forgotten Books for the first time. – Carlos Ruiz Zafn
- There are worse prisons than words. – Carlos Ruiz Zafn
- Books hold no passports. There’s only one true literary tradition: the human. – Carlos Ruiz Zafn
- Ignatius B. Samson, welcome to the Cemetery of Forgotten Books. – Carlos Ruiz Zafn
- 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
- nations never see themselves clearly in the mirror, much less when war preys on their minds – Carlos Ruiz Zafn
- 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
- The day I die, all that was once mine will be yours, Julián, he would say. Except my dreams. – Carlos Ruiz Zafn
- Martin, at my age, ?????cism is reduced to enjoying caramel custard and looking at widows’ necks. – Carlos Ruiz Zafn
- Every piece of that marvelous world was a silent tear. – Carlos Ruiz Zafn
- Paris is the only city in the world where starving to death is still considered an art. – Carlos Ruiz Zafn
- Few things leave a deeper mark on the reader, than the first book that finds its way to his heart. – Carlos Ruiz Zafn
- -Do you think it’s dirty money?-All money is dirty. If it were clean nobody would want it. – Carlos Ruiz Zafn
- 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
- 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
- You don’t know what thirst is until you drink for the first time. – Carlos Ruiz Zafn
- 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
- 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
- Never trust anyone, Daniel, especially the people you admire. Those are the ones who will make you suffer the worst blows. – Carlos Ruiz Zafn
- Never trust he who trusts everyone. – Carlos Ruiz Zafn
- as long as we are being remembered, we remain alive – Carlos Ruiz Zafn
- Over time, loneliness gets inside you and doesn’t go away. – Carlos Ruiz Zafn
- Never trust anyone Daniel, especially the people you admire – Carlos Ruiz Zafn
- In small towns, news travels at the speed of boredom. – Carlos Ruiz Zafn
- To truly hate is an art one learns with time. – Carlos Ruiz Zafn
- I could tell you it’s the heart, but what is really killing him is loneliness. Memories are worse than bullets. – Carlos Ruiz Zafn
- Sometimes memories follow you wherever you go-you don’t need to take them with you. – Carlos Ruiz Zafn
- And here I was thinking you were a bit slow, what with so much asking and not knowing anything. – Carlos Ruiz Zafn
- A secret’s worth depends on the people from whom it must be kept. – Carlos Ruiz Zafn
- All business opportunities stem from someone else’s inability to resolve a simple and inevitable problem. – Carlos Ruiz Zafn