Do you know the best thing about broken hearts? They can only really break once the rest is just scratches.
Heart, Breakup, Sad QuotesCarlos Ruiz Zafón in The Angel's GameIf people thought a quarter of what they speak, this world would be heaven.
Carlos Ruiz Zafón in MarinaWe all have a secret buried under lock and key in the attic of our soul.
SecretsCarlos Ruiz Zafón in MarinaParis is the only city in the world where starving oneself is still considered art.
ParisCarlos Ruiz ZafónThe only way you can truly get to know an author is through the trail of ink he leaves behind him. The person you think you see is only an empty character: truth is always hidden in fiction.
Books, Writing, ReadingCarlos Ruiz Zafón in The Angel's GameThe nurse knew that those who really love, love in silence, with deeds and not with words.
Love, SilenceCarlos Ruiz Zafón in The Shadow of the WindDon't be afraid of being scared. To be afraid is a sign of common sense. Only complete idiots are not afraid of anything.
FearCarlos Ruiz Zafón in The Angel's GameBut in good time you'll see that sometimes what matters isn't what one gives but what one gives up.
Giving UpCarlos Ruiz Zafón in The Shadow of the WindI stepped into the bookshop and breathed in that perfume of paper and magic that strangely no one had ever thought of bottling.
BooksCarlos Ruiz Zafón in The Angel's GameA story is a letter that the author writes to himself, to tell himself things that he would be unable to discover otherwise.
Stories, WritingCarlos Ruiz Zafón in The Shadow of the WindThe moment you stop to think about whether you love someone, you've already stopped loving that person forever.
LoveCarlos Ruiz Zafón in The Shadow of the WindPeople tend to complicate their own lives, as if living weren't already complicated enough.
Carlos Ruiz Zafón in The Shadow of the WindPeople only disappear when they have somewhere to go.
Carlos Ruiz Zafón in MarinaAll the geography, trigonometry, and arithmetic in the world are useless unless you learn to think for yourself. No school teaches you that.
Carlos Ruiz Zafón in MarinaOur body begins to destroy itself from the moment it is born. We are fragile. We're creatures of passage. All that is left of us are our actions, the good or the evil we do to our fellow humans
Carlos Ruiz Zafón in MarinaFew things leave a deeper mark on the reader, than the first book that finds its way to his heart.
Books, ReadingCarlos Ruiz Zafón in The Shadow of the WindBooks are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you.
Books, MirrorsCarlos Ruiz Zafón in The Shadow of the WindThe words with which a child's heart is poisoned, whether through malice or through ignorance, remain branded in his memory, and sooner or later they burn his soul.
IgnoranceCarlos Ruiz Zafón in The Shadow of the WindOnce, in my father's bookshop, I heard a regular customer say that few things leave a deeper mark on a reader than the first book that finds its way into his heart. Those first images, the echo of words we think we have left behind, accompany us throughout our lives and sculpt a palace in our memory to which, sooner or later - no matter how many books we read, how many worlds we discover, or how much we learn or forget - we will return.
Books, ReadingCarlos Ruiz Zafón in The Shadow of the WindTime goes faster the more hollow it is. Lives with no meaning go straight past you, like trains that don’t stop at your station.
Life, Time, BoredomCarlos Ruiz Zafón in The Shadow of the WindMaking money isn't hard in itself. What's hard is to earn it doing something worth devoting one's life to.
Money, WorkCarlos Ruiz Zafón in The Shadow of the WindEvery book, every volume you see here, has a soul. The soul of the person who wrote it and of those who read it and lived and dreamed with it. Every time a book changes hands, every time someone runs his eyes down its pages, its spirit grows and strengthens.
Books, ReadingCarlos Ruiz Zafón in The Shadow of the WindOne loves truly only once in a lifetime, Julian, even if one isn’t aware of it.
LoveCarlos Ruiz Zafón in The Shadow of the Wind