Carlos Ruiz Zafón quotes - page 6

Remember me, even if it's only in a corner and secretly. Don't let me go. (Carlos Ruiz Zafón)
You young people never say anything. And us old folks don't know how to stop talking.
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We think we understand a song's lyrics but what makes us believe in them, or not, is the music.
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One mustn't dream of one's future; one must earn it.
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We humans are willing to believe anything rather than the truth.
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It's only worth staying in bed if you're young and in good company.
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I can't die yet, doctor. Not yet. I have things to do. Afterwords I'll have a whole lifetime in which to die.
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One is never wholly conscious of the greed hidden in one's heart until one hears the sweet sound of silver.
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A good friend once told me that the problems are like cockroaches. If drawn to light, they'll get scared.
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I prefer you like this, when you're in a foul mood, because you tell the truth.
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Do you think it's dirty money? -All money is dirty. If it were clean nobody would want it. (Carlos Ruiz Zafón)
Some things have to be seen in the shadows.
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Why is it that the less one has to say the more one says it in the most pompous and pedantic way possible?... Is it to fool the world or just to fool themselves?
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They had parted as boys, and now life presented one of them with a fugitive and the other with a dying man. Both wondered whether this was due to the cards they'd been dealt or to the way they had played them.
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Disarmed, I realized how easily you can lose all animosity toward someone you've deemed your enemy as soon as that person stops behaving as such.
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I hoped my absence made them happy or at least made them forget that they weren't happy and never will be.
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The haunting of history is ever present in Barcelona. I see cities as organisms, as living creatures. To me, Madrid is a man and Barcelona is a woman. And it's a woman who's extremely vain.
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The Cemetery of Forgotten Books is like the greatest, most fantastic library you could ever imagine. It's a labyrinth of books with tunnels, bridges, arches, secret sections - and it's hidden inside an old palace in the old city of Barcelona.
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Now I know I have already lost you. I have lost everything. Even so, I can't let you go forever and allow you to forget me without letting you know that I don't bear you any grudge, that I knew it from the start, I knew that I was going to lose you and that you would never see in me what I see in you. I want you to know that I loved you from the very first day and that I still love you, now more than ever, even if you don't want me to.
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I've always thought that we are what we remember, and the less we remember, the less we are.
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There are two things that I cannot live without: music and books. Caffeine isn't dignified enough to qualify. (Carlos Ruiz Zafón)
Theory is the practice of the impotent.
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The truth is what hurts.
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A modern-day Dickens with a popular voice and a genius for storytelling in any genre, Stephen King has written many wonderful books.
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When 'The Shadow of the Wind' became a success I had already been a working writer, I'd been through the ups and downs, I'd seen how it worked.
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