Carlos Ruiz Zafón Quotes

[He] was a brilliant man. People tend to become wary of individuals like him because their brilliance reminds them of their own mediocrity. Envy is a blind man who wants to pull out your eyes.

Everything in life is nonsense. It's just a question of perspective.

I started off for home, where I planned to recruit a good book and hide away from the world.

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.

Youth is like a fickle girlfriend. We can't understand or value her until she goes off with someone else, never to return.

I would have preferred someone else to have been in charge of rescuing this story, but once again life has taught me that my role is to be a witness, not the leading actor.

In the haunted shade of the Ateneo, her hands wrote a curse on my skin that was to hound me for years.

I've learnt that solitude is sometimes a path that leads to peace

Some disappointments honor those who inspire them

Life has enough torturers as it is, without you going around moonlighting as a Grand Inquisitor against yourself.

As he took them in his arms, the crying of the babies permeated the night like a trail of blood calling out to a predator.

You talk as if Bea were a trophy.''No, as if she were a blessing, ' Fermin corrected.

All business opportunities stem from someone else's inability to resolve a simple and inevitable problem.

God gives us life, but the world's landlord is the devil....

But I couldn't absorb the idea that death could actually walk by my side, with a human face and a heart that was poisoned with hatred.

The same thing that had happened with the flowers was happening with my longing: once I held it in my hands, I didn't know where to put it.

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.

History is biology's dumping ground

I believe that nothing happens by chance. Deep down, things have their secret plan, even though we don't understand it.

Everyone wanted to see [him] fall so they could devour his remains. As is usually the case, the army of sycophants had turned into a horde of hungry hyenas

- Boys my age are boring. They have nothing to say and half of them seem like complete idiots.I was going to say that they didn't improve with age but didn't want to spoil her illusions.

Her tiny and organized handwriting reminded me of the tidiness of her desk, as if she'd wanted to find in words the peace and safety that life hadn't wanted to grant her.