811 Quotes by Carlos Ruiz Zafón

I could tell you it’s the heart, but what is really killing him is loneliness. Memories are worse than bullets.

Books hold no passports. There’s only one true literary tradition: the human.

One of the pitfalls of childhood is that one doesn’t have to understand something to feel it. By the time the mind is able to comprehend what has happened, the wounds of the heart are already too deep.

I prefer you like this, when you’re in a foul mood, because you tell the truth.

When ‘The Shadow of the Wind’ became a success I had already been a working writer, I’d been through the ups and downs, I’d seen how it worked.

Barcelona is a very old city in which you can feel the weight of history; it is haunted by history. You cannot walk around it without perceiving it.

We think we understand a song’s lyrics but what makes us believe in them, or not, is the music.

Leger, huwelijk, kerk en bankwezen: de vier ruiters van de apocalyps.

Some like to believe it’s the book that chooses the person.