01c. 1992 ADThe moment you stop to think about whether you love someone, you've already stopped loving that person forever.Carlos Ruiz Zafón / quote ↗
02c. 1992 ADMan...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.Carlos Ruiz Zafón / quote ↗
03c. 1992 ADOne loves truly only once in a lifetime, Julian, even if one isn’t aware of it.Carlos Ruiz Zafón / quote ↗
04c. 1992 ADMost of us have the good or bad fortune of seeing our lives fall apart so slowly we barely notice.Carlos Ruiz Zafón / quote ↗
07c. 1992 ADEvery 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.Carlos Ruiz Zafón / quote ↗
09c. 1992 ADOne 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.Carlos Ruiz Zafón / quote ↗
10c. 1992 ADPeople talk too much. Humans aren't descended from monkeys. They come from parrots.Carlos Ruiz Zafón / quote ↗
12c. 1992 ADBooks are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you.Carlos Ruiz Zafón / quote ↗
13c. 1992 ADThere are few reasons for telling the truth, but for lying the number is infinite.Carlos Ruiz Zafón / quote ↗
15c. 1992 ADEvil presupposes a moral decision, intention, and some forethought. A moran or a lout, howeverm doesn't stop to think or reason.Carlos Ruiz Zafón / quote ↗
17c. 1992 ADThe fact is that nothing is more difficult to believe than the truth; conversely, nothing seduces like the power of lies, the greater the better. It's only natural, and you will have to find the right balance. Having said that, let me add that this particular old woman hasn't been collecting only years; she has also collected stories, and none sadder or more terrible than the one she's about to tell you. You have been at the heart of this story without knowing it until today ...Carlos Ruiz Zafón / quote ↗
18c. 1992 ADCada vez que un libro cambia de manos, cada vez que alguien desliza la mirada por sus páginas, su espíritu crece y se hace fuerte. (Sempere)Carlos Ruiz Zafón / quote ↗
19c. 1992 ADIf there is a god, or hundreds of them, I hope they will forgive me for the harm I may have inflicted on you by telling you exactly what happened.Carlos Ruiz Zafón / quote ↗
20c. 1992 ADMaking money isn't hard in itself,what's hard is to earn it doing something worth devoting your life toCarlos Ruiz Zafón / quote ↗
21c. 1992 ADTime has taught me not to lose hope, yet not to trust too much in hope either.Carlos Ruiz Zafón / quote ↗
22c. 1992 ADI couldn't help thinking that if I, by pure chance, had found a whole universe in a single unknown book, buried in that endless necropolis, tens of thousands more would remain unexplored, forgotten forever.Carlos Ruiz Zafón / quote ↗
23c. 1992 ADRemember me, even if it's only in a corner and secretly. Don't let me go.Carlos Ruiz Zafón / quote ↗
24c. 1992 ADI can't die yet, doctor. Not yet. I have things to do. Afterwords I'll have a whole lifetime in which to die.Carlos Ruiz Zafón / quote ↗
