Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Carlos Ruiz Zafón Spanish: is a Spanish novelist...
NationalitySpanish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth25 September 1964
CountrySpain
thinking people wish
. . .sometimes one feels freer speaking to a stranger than to people one knows. Why is that?" “Probably because a stranger sees us the way we are, not as he wishes to think we are.
remember let-me-go ifs
Remember me, even if it's only in a corner and secretly. Don't let me go.
book dust hands
I was raised among books, making invisible friends in pages that seemed cast from dust and whose smell I carry on my hands to this day.
time taught too-much
Time has taught me not to lose hope, yet not to trust too much in hope either.
thinking forever moments
The moment you stop to think about whether you love someone, you've already stopped loving that person forever.
eye becoming ends
You end up becoming someone you see in the eyes of those you love.
mother father writing
I was secretly convinced that with such a marvel one would be able to write anything, from novels to encyclopedias, and letters whose supernatural power would surpass any postal limitations--a letter written with that pen would reach the most remote corners of the world, even that unknowable place to which my father said my mother had gone and from where she would never return.
giving-up expectations way
We all give up great expectations along the way.
childhood fickle lovers
Childhood devotions make unfaithful and fickle lovers.
character thinking fiction
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.
dog thinking mind
If you think you’re the only person for whom life is painful, you’re wrong. And if you don’t mind letting yourself die like a dog, at least have the decency to remember that there are those of us who do care – although, to tell the truth, I don’t see why?
keeping-secrets people kept-secrets
A secret's worth depends on the people from whom it must be kept.
mind language dormant
There's no such thing as dead languages, only dormant minds.
heart broken scratches
Do you know the best thing about broken hearts? They can only really break once the rest is just scratches.