811 Quotes by Carlos Ruiz Zafón

That afternoon the sky was scattered with black clouds galloping in from the sea and clustering over the city. Flashes of lightening echoed on the horizon and a charged warm wind smelling of dust announced a powerful summer storm. When I reached the station I noticed the first few drops, shiny and heavy, like coins falling from heaven...Night seemed to fall suddenly, interrupted only by the lightning now bursting over the city, leaving a trail of noise and fury.

It was a well-known fact that the richness of buttery foods led to the moral ruin and confusion of the intellect.

Those were the words she wanted to hear and she finally surrendered to the temptation of believing them.

It is difficult to hate an idea. That requires a certain intellectual discipline and a slightly obsessive, sick mind. There aren’t too many of those. It’s much easier to hate someone with a recognizable face whom we can blame for everything that makes us feel uncomfortable. It doesn’t have to be an individual character. It could be a nation, a race, a group. . .anything.

There are times and places where not to be anyone is more honourable than to be someone.

I tried to swallow his nonsense without choking.

You end up becoming someone you see in the eyes of those you love.

The world's very small when you don't have anywhere to go.

Maturity is simply the process of discovering that everything you believed in when you were young is false and that all the things you refused to believe in turn out to be true.