Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Carlos Ruiz Zafón Spanish: is a Spanish novelist...
NationalitySpanish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth25 September 1964
CountrySpain
truth book mirrors
Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you.
book glasses mirrors
As I walked, I ran my fingers along the spines of hundreds of books. I let myself be imbued with the smell, with the light that filtered through the cracks or from the glass lanterns embedded in the wooden structure, floating among mirrors and shadows.
compassion sometimes circumstances
Sometimes, in difficult circumstances, one can confuse compassion with love.
teacher way students
It's the student who makes the teacher, not the other way around.
way easier realising
Whether we realise it or not, most of us define ourselves by opposing rather than by favouring something or someone. To put it another way, it is easier to react than to act.
confusion ruins facts
It was a well-known fact that the richness of buttery foods led to the moral ruin and confusion of the intellect.
nonsense choke
I tried to swallow his nonsense without choking.
reality order ideas
Does the madman know he is mad? Or are the madmen those who insist o. Convincing him of his unreason in order to safeguard their own idea of reality?
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.