The best Quotes from The Angel's Game

The 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.

Carlos Ruiz Zafón

Books Writing Reading

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 Zafón

Fear

I stepped into the bookshop and breathed in that perfume of paper and magic that strangely no one had ever thought of bottling.

Carlos Ruiz Zafón

Books

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The nurse knew that those who really love, love in silence, with deeds and not with words.

Carlos Ruiz Zafón in The Shadow of the Wind

Love Silence

But in good time you'll see that sometimes what matters isn't what one gives but what one gives up.

Carlos Ruiz Zafón in The Shadow of the Wind

Giving Up

A story is a letter that the author writes to himself, to tell himself things that he would be unable to discover otherwise.

Carlos Ruiz Zafón in The Shadow of the Wind

Stories Writing

Memories are worse than bullets.

Carlos Ruiz Zafón in The Shadow of the Wind

Memories Breakup

The moment you stop to think about whether you love someone, you've already stopped loving that person forever.

Carlos Ruiz Zafón in The Shadow of the Wind

Love

People tend to complicate their own lives, as if living weren't already complicated enough.

Carlos Ruiz Zafón in The Shadow of the Wind

Few things leave a deeper mark on the reader, than the first book that finds its way to his heart.

Carlos Ruiz Zafón in The Shadow of the Wind

Books Reading

Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you.

Carlos Ruiz Zafón in The Shadow of the Wind

Books Mirrors

The 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.

Carlos Ruiz Zafón in The Shadow of the Wind

Ignorance

Once, 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.

Carlos Ruiz Zafón in The Shadow of the Wind

Books Reading

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 Zafón in The Shadow of the Wind

Life Time Boredom

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 in The Shadow of the Wind

Money Work

Every 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.

Carlos Ruiz Zafón in The Shadow of the Wind

Books Reading

One loves truly only once in a lifetime, Julian, even if one isn’t aware of it.

Carlos Ruiz Zafón in The Shadow of the Wind

Love

Time does to the body what stupidity does to the soul.

Carlos Ruiz Zafón in Marina

Foolishness Age

If people thought a quarter of what they speak, this world would be heaven.

Carlos Ruiz Zafón in Marina

Paris is the only city in the world where starving oneself is still considered art.

Carlos Ruiz Zafón

Paris

We all have a secret buried under lock and key in the attic of our soul.

Carlos Ruiz Zafón in Marina

Soul Secrets

People only disappear when they have somewhere to go.

Carlos Ruiz Zafón in Marina

All 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 Marina

Our 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 Marina

A mind needs books like a sword needs a whetstone.

Tyrion Lannister in Game of Thrones - Season 1 Episode 2

Books Mind & Apprehension Intelligence

"One must always be careful of books," said Tessa, "and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us."

Cassandra Clare in The Infernal Devices

Books

If you have never spent whole afternoons with burning ears and rumpled hair, forgetting the world around you over a book, forgetting cold and hunger-

If you have never read secretly under the bedclothes with a flashlight, because your father or mother or some other well-meaning person has switched off the lamp on the plausible ground that it was time to sleep because you had to get up so early-

If you have never wept bitter tears because a wonderful story has come to an end and you must take your leave of the characters with whom you have shared so many adventures, whom you have loved and admired, for whom you have hoped and feared, and without whose company life seems empty and meaningless-

If such things have not been part of your own experience, you probably won't understand what Bastian did next.

Michael Ende in The Neverending Story

Books Reading

A true hero isn't measured by the size of his strength, but by the strength of his heart.

Zeus in Hercules

Heart Heros Size

It is only with the heart that one can see rightly;
what is essential is invisible to the eye.

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry in The Little Prince

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Heart Seeing Romantic Quotes

The world will break your heart ten ways to Sunday. That's guaranteed.

Pat in Silver Linings

Life Breakup

Harry, suffering like this proves you are still a man! This pain is part of being human.

Albus Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Humanity Breakup Grief & Condolence

The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for.

Bob Marley

Love Hurting Sad Quotes

Numbing the pain for a while will make it worse when you finally feel it.

Albus Dumbledore in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

Pain Breakup Sad Quotes

Poetry, she thought, wasn't written to be analyzed, it was meant to inspire without reason, to touch without understanding.

Nicholas Sparks in The Notebook

Writing Poems

A living poem had always been the words that came to mind when he tried to describe her to others.

Nicholas Sparks in The Notebook

Writing Poems Inspiration

If you only ever read one book in your life I highly recommend... keeping your f*cking mouth shut.

Banksy in Cut It Out

Reading

I feel so extraordinarily happy and free when I read that I'm convinced it could make everything else in my life bearable.

Deborah Feldmann in Unorthodox

Reading

There's a lot of money to be made in scaring people.

Dana Scully in The X-Files

Fear Conspiracy Theories

Admitting your fears is the first and most difficult step in overcoming them.

Tenzin in The Legend of Korra

Fear

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