Carlos Ruiz Zafón quotes

Presents are made for the pleasure of who gives them, not the merits of who receives them. (Carlos Ruiz Zafón)
Fools talk, cowards are silent, wise men listen.
Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Poetry is written with tears, fiction with blood, and history with invisible ink.
Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Sometimes we think people are like lottery tickets, that they're there to make our most absurd dreams come true.
Carlos Ruiz Zafón
People tend to complicate their own lives, as if living weren't already complicated enough.
Carlos Ruiz Zafón
The moment you stop to think about whether you love someone, you've already stopped loving that person forever.
Carlos Ruiz Zafón
You women listen more to your heart and less to all the nonsense. That's why you live longer.
Carlos Ruiz Zafón
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
Coincidences are the scars of fate.
Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Never trust he who trusts everyone.
Carlos Ruiz Zafón
We exist as long as somebody remembers us. (Carlos Ruiz Zafón)
Wine turns the wise man into a fool and the fool into a wise man.
Carlos Ruiz Zafón
There's no such thing as dead languages, only dormant minds.
Carlos Ruiz Zafón
We spend a good part of our lives dreaming, especially when we're awake.
Carlos Ruiz Zafón
A secret's worth depends on the people from whom it must be kept.
Carlos Ruiz Zafón
The world's very small when you don't have anywhere to go.
Carlos Ruiz Zafón
God gives us life, but the world's landlord is the devil....
Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Perhaps for that very reason, I adored her all the more, because of the eternal human stupidity of pursuing those who hurt us the most.
Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Few things are more deceptive than memories.
Carlos Ruiz Zafón
If people thought a quarter of what they speak, this world would be heaven.
Carlos Ruiz Zafón
There are no second chances in life, except to feel remorse. (Carlos Ruiz Zafón)
While you're working, you don't have to look life in the eye.
Carlos Ruiz Zafón
... 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.
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But in good time you'll see that sometimes what matters isn't what one gives but what one gives up.
Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Making money isn't hard in itself... What's hard is to earn it doing something worth devoting one's life to.
Carlos Ruiz Zafón