811 Quotes by Carlos Ruiz Zafón

Everyone wanted to see [him] fall so they could devour his remains. As is usually the case, the army of sycophants had turned into a horde of hungry hyenas

1My father says a hunch is your brain’s way of taking a short cut to the truth,’ replied Max.‘He’s a wise man, your father. What else does he say?’‘That the more you try to hide from the truth, the quicker it finds you.

I looked at the group of human remains that languished in the corner and smiled at them. It occurred to me that their very presence was testimony to the moral emptiness of the universe and the mechanical brutality with which it destroys the parts it no longer needs.

Vous avez du poison au coeur, mademoiselle.

Są takie miejsca i takie czasy, kiedy bycie nikim przynosi większy zaszczyt niż bycie kimś.

Some disappointments honor those who inspire them

Do you know the best thing about broken hearts?... They can only really break once. The rest is just scratches.

Sose fogadjon el olyan kitüntetést, ami nem egy csekk hátán érkezik.

...until that moment I had not understood that this was a story about lonely people, about absence and loss, and that that was why I had taken refuge in it until it became confused with my own life, like someone who has escaped into the pages of a novel because those whom he needs to love seem nothing more than ghosts inhabiting the mind of a stranger.