Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Carlos Ruiz Zafón Spanish: is a Spanish novelist...
NationalitySpanish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth25 September 1964
CountrySpain
compassion sometimes circumstances
Sometimes, in difficult circumstances, one can confuse compassion with love.
nonsense choke
I tried to swallow his nonsense without choking.
years bye dawn
[H]e lay awake, dreading the dawn when he would have to say good-bye to the small universe he had built for himself over the years.
wise wine men
Wine turns the wise man into a fool and the fool into a wise man.
dream people remember
There are people you remember and people you dream of.
agreement broken gentleman
A Gentleman's agreement cannot be broken without breaking the person who has entered into it.
military army years
The only use for military service is that it reveals the number of morons in the population," he would remark. "And that can be discovered in the first two weeks; there's no need for two years. Army, Marriage, the Church and Banking: the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. Yes, go on, laugh.
world prejudice opinion
In this world the only opinion that holds court is prejudice.
sweet winning thinking
If you really want to possess a woman, you must think like her, and the first thing to do is win over her soul. The rest, that sweet, soft wrapping that steals away your senses and your virtue, is a bonus.
book owners shadow-of-the-wind
In the shop we buy and sell them, but in truth books have no owner. Every book you see here has been somebody’s best friend.
stupid epidemics stupidity
This cures everything except stupidity, which is an epidemic on the rise.
dream thinking people
Sometimes we think people are like lottery tickets, that they're there to make our most absurd dreams come true.
mean certainty-of-death void
It is part of our nature to survive. Faith is an instinctive response to aspects of existence that we cannot explain by any other means - be it the moral void we perceive in the universe, the certainty of death, the mystery of the origin of things, the meaning of our own lives or the absence of meaning.
order forget-you forget
I turned you into a stranger in order to forget you and now I'm the stranger.