811 Quotes by Carlos Ruiz Zafón

Nobody knows much about women, not even Freud, not even women themselves. But it’s like electricity: you don’t need to know how it works to get a shock on the fingers.

In fact I don’t think of literature, or music, or any art form as having a nationality. Where you’re born is simply an accident of fate. I don’t see why I shouldn’t be more interested in say, Dickens, than in an author from Barcelona simply because I wasn’t born in the UK. I do not have an ethno-centric view of things, much less of literature. Books hold no passports. There’s only one true literary tradition: the human.

Sometimes we think people are like lottery tickets, that they’re there to make our most absurd dreams come true.

There’s no such thing as dead languages, only dormant minds.

Everything in life in nonsense. it’s just a question of persepctive.

I was aware of the risks I was taking, but I did’nt care.

Thunder and lightning, it’s like the end of the world.

People only disappear when they have somewhere to go.

Don’t be afraid of being scared. To be afraid is a sign of common sense. Only complete idiots are not afraid of anything.