811 Quotes by Carlos Ruiz Zafón

I’ve always said that idleness dulls the spirit. We have to keep the brain busy, or at least the hands if we don’t have a brain.

Over time, loneliness gets inside you and doesn’t go away.

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

That book taught me that by reading, I could live more intensely. It could give me back the sight I had lost. For that reason alone, a book that didn’t matter to anyone changed my life.

Viviamo nel ricordo di chi ci ama.

I hoped my absence made them happy or at least made them forget that they weren’t happy and never will be.

Quien quiere de verdad quiere en silencio, con hechos, nunca con palabras.

You’re as white as a nun’s buttock. Are you all right?

The Cemetery of Forgotten Books is a metaphor, not just for books but for ideas, for language, for knowledge, for beauty, for all the things that make us human, for collecting memory.