Carlos Ruiz Zafon Quotes

El corazón de la hembra es un laberinto de sutilezas que desafía la mente cerril del varón trapacero. Si quiere usted de verdad poseer a una mujer, tiene que pensar como ella, y lo primero es ganarse...

Escribir es un oficio que se aprende, pero que nadie puede enseñar. El día que entienda usted lo que eso significa será cuando empiece a aprender a ser escritor.

Exhibimos paciencia, señorita, y en ocasiones, asombro ante la osadía de la ignorancia. Esto es la Biblioteca Nacional.

God bless, and don't hesitate never to come back here again.

Gostava de saborear o desenrolar do enredo e esmiuçar a arquitetura de cada frase,acreditando que,se decifrasse a música daquela prosa,descobriria algo acerca daquele homem que nunca conhecera...

Guardi, Daniel, le donne, con rare eccezioni, quali la sua vicina Merceditas, sono più intelligenti di noi o, perlomeno, più sincere con se stesse rispetto a ciò che vogliono. Che poi te lo facciano s...

Había querido creer que saldríamos adelante con soplos de miseria y de esperanza.

Had I paused to reflect, I would have understood that my devotion to Clara brought me no more than suffering. Perhaps for that very reason, I adored her all the more, because of the eternal human stup...

Have you ever known a woman, David? Of course I have. Dozens of them. I mean in the biblical sense. As in Mass? No, as in bed. Ah.

He knew that a civil war is never just one fight, but a tangle of large or small fights bound to one another.

Her face was lined with bitterness and her eyes looked glazed, tired of hating and weeping in solitude.

I had begun to understand that my father was ashamed that others might think him ignorant, a residue from a war which, like all wars, was fought in the name of God and country to make a few men who we...

I hope you find the path that I missed.

I hugged her for the last time and looked into her eyes. On the way we had agreed there would be no farewells, no solemn words, no promises to fulfill.

I know you men believe that the size of your stubbornness should match the size of your privates. Did you also read that in your book? No, that wisdom’s homemade.

I looked at her, a broken woman with tears in her eyes, and didn’t wish for anything in the world other than the ability to give her back what she’d never had.

I loro erano baci appassionati di chi si appartiene e non si cura del resto del mondo.

If you don’t know where you’re going, you won’t get anywhere,

Il mondo non verrà distrutto da una bomba atomica, come dicono i giornali, ma da una risata, da un’eccesso di banalità che trasformerà la realtà in una barzelletta di pessimo gusto.

Il nichilismo è solo una posa, non una dottrina. Metta la fiamma di una candela sotto i testicoli di un nichilista e constaterà come vede in fretta la luce dell'esistenza.