811 Quotes by Carlos Ruiz Zafón

I’ve always thought that we are what we remember, and the less we remember, the less we are.

In Los Angeles you get the sense sometimes that there’s a mysterious patrol at night: when the streets are empty and everyone’s asleep, they go erasing the past. It’s like a bad Ray Bradbury story.

That’s what happens when people reach old age; nobody remembers they’ve been bastards too.

I can’t die yet, doctor. Not yet. I have things to do. Afterwords I’ll have a whole lifetime in which to die.

So long as we are being remembered, we remain alive.

Every labyrinth has its minotaur.

God gives us life, but the world’s landlord is the devil...

Madmen always think it’s the others who are mad.

The Cemetery of Forgotten Books is like the greatest, most fantastic library you could ever imagine. Its a labyrinth of books with tunnels, bridges, arches, secret sections – and its hidden inside an old palace in the old city of Barcelona.