Carlos Ruiz
![Carlos Ruiz](/assets/img/authors/carlos-ruiz.jpg)
Carlos Ruiz
Carlos Humberto Ruiz Gutiérrez, initially nicknamed El Pescaditobut gradually known as just Pescado or "Fish", is a Guatemalan footballer who plays for Municipal of Guatemala...
ProfessionBaseball Player
Date of Birth22 January 1979
CityDavid, Panama
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.
book believe soul
I would like to save all books, those that are banned, those that are burned, or forgotten with contempt by the mandarins who want to tell us what is good and what is bad. Every book has a soul ... and I believe every book is worth saving from either bigotry or oblivion.
book writing school
The thing is that my first novel, which was basically a mystery adventure story, won quite an important award in Spain for young adult fiction, and because of this it became a very successful book, and right now it's some sort of a standard title, it's read widely in many high schools in Spain, so I think, in a way, I was a victim of my own success in the field of young adult fiction, because it was never my own natural register. I never intended to write that kind of fiction, but I became very successful at it.
book reading sight
That book taught me that by reading, I could live more intensely. It could give me back the sight I had lost. For that reason alone, a book that didn't matter to anyone changed my life.
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.
book tradition passports
Books hold no passports. There's only one true literary tradition: the human.
memories father book
Once, in my father's bookshop, I heard a regular customer say that few things leave a deeper mark on a reader than the first book that finds its way into his heart. Those first images, the echo of words we think we have left behind, accompany us throughout our lives and sculpt a palace in our memory to which, sooner or later—no matter how many books we read, how many worlds we discover, or how much we learn or forget—we will return.
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.