Carlos Ruiz Zafón
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Biography
Carlos Ruiz Zafón was a Spanish novelist known for his 2001 novel La sombra del viento. The novel sold 15 million copies and was winner of numerous awards; it was included in the list of the one hundred best books in Spanish in the last twenty-five years, made in 2007 by eighty-one Latin American and Spanish writers and critics.
"Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you."
"Fools talk, cowards are silent, wise men listen."
"Every book, every volume you see here, has a soul. The soul of the person who wrote it and of those who read it and lived and dreamed with it. Every time a book changes hands, every time someone runs his eyes down its pages, its spirit grows and strengthens."
"The moment you stop to think about whether you love someone, you've already stopped loving that person forever."
"Every book has a soul, the soul of the person who wrote it and the soul of those who read it and dream about it."
"A story is a letter that the author writes to himself, to tell himself things that he would be unable to discover otherwise."
"Bea says that the art of reading is slowly dying, that it's an intimate ritual, that a book is a mirror that offers us only what we already carry inside us, that when we read, we do it with all our heart and mind, and great readers are becoming more scarce by the day."
"People talk too much. Humans aren't descended from monkeys. They come from parrots."
"There are few reasons for telling the truth, but for lying the number is infinite."
"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."
"that as long as we are being remembered, we remain alive."
"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."
"Man...heats up like a lightbulb: red hot in the twinkling of an eye and cold again in a flash. The female, on the other hand...heats up like an iron. Slowly, over a low heat, like tasty stew. But then, once she has heated up, there's no stopping her."
"One of the pitfalls of childhood is that one doesn't have to understand something to feel it. By the time the mind is able to comprehend what has happened, the wounds of the heart are already too deep."
"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."
"Most of us have the good or bad fortune of seeing our lives fall apart so slowly we barely notice."
"There are no second chances in life, except to feel remorse."
"One loves truly only once in a lifetime, Julian, even if one isn’t aware of it."
"Few things are more deceptive than memories."
"I still remember the day my father took me to the Cemetery of Forgotten Books for the first time."
"We all give up great expectations along the way."
"Some like to believe it's the book that chooses the person."
"We are willing to believe anything other than the truth."
"Nothing important is learned; it is simply remembered."
"Time has taught me not to lose hope, yet not to trust too much in hope either."