Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Angel's Game Quotes
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.
I don't suppose you have many friends. Neither do I. I don't trust people who say they have a lot of friends. It's a sure sign that they don't really know anyone.
Don't be afraid of being scared. To be afraid is a sign of common sense. Only complete idiots are not afraid of anything.
We spend a good part of our lives dreaming, especially when we're awake.
I can't die yet, doctor. Not yet. I have things to do. Afterwords I'll have a whole lifetime in which to die.
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.
I've always said that idleness dulls the spirit. We have to keep the brain busy, or at least the hands if we don't have a brain.
This cures everything except stupidity, which is an epidemic on the rise.
A Gentleman's agreement cannot be broken without breaking the person who has entered into it.
I wandered off, walking through streets that seemed emptier than ever, thinking that if I didn't stop, if I kept on walking, I wouldn't notice that the world I thought I knew was no longer there.
Human beings believe just as they breathe - in order to survive.
Man is a moral animal abandoned in an amoral universe and condemned to a finite existence with no other prupose than to perpetuate the natural cycle of the species.
Inspiration comes when you stick your elbows on the table, your bottom on the chair and you start sweating. Choose a theme, an idea, and squeeze your brain until it hurts. That's called inspiration.
All business opportunities stem from someone else's inability to resolve a simple and inevitable problem.
A young man is the perfect soldier. He has great potential for aggression and a limited critical capacity - or none at all - with which to analyze it and judge how to channel it.
Justice is an affectation of perspective, not a universal value.
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.
Every self-respecting act of persuasion must find appeal to curiosity, then to vanity, and lastly to kindness or remorse. Isabella looked down and slowly nodded.
You don't look well, " he pronounced."Indigestion, " I replied."From what?""Reality.""Join the queue.
-Do you think it's dirty money?-All money is dirty. If it were clean nobody would want it.
He was waiting for me at the best table in the room, toying with a glass of white wine and listening to the pianist who was playing a piece by Granados with velvet fingers.
Martin, at my age, eroticism is reduced to enjoying caramel custard and looking at widows' necks.
I was no longer able to hear the music that issues from a decent piece of prose.
To Senor Sempere, the best friend a book could ever have: you opened the doors to the world for me and showed me how to go through them.