811 Quotes by Carlos Ruiz Zafón

. . .sometimes one feels freer speaking to a stranger than to people one knows. Why is that?" “Probably because a stranger sees us the way we are, not as he wishes to think we are.

Deep down we've never been who we think we once were, and we only remember what never happened.

Does the madman know he is mad? Or are the madmen those who insist o. Convincing him of his unreason in order to safeguard their own idea of reality?

Waiting is the rust of the soul.

My wife and I were never happy here. Spain can be narrow-minded, and provincial. In LA you don't have to justify yourself. I think I will leave here again soon and move back there.

I leafed through the pages, inhaling the enchanted scent of promise that comes with all new books, and stopped to read the start of a sentence that caught my eye.

Everything can be forgiven in this world, save telling the truth.

Wine turns the wise man into a fool and the fool into a wise man.

The most despicable humans are the ones who always feel virtuous and look down on the rest of the world.