811 Quotes by Carlos Ruiz Zafón

- Boys my age are boring. They have nothing to say and half of them seem like complete idiots.I was going to say that they didn't improve with age but didn't want to spoil her illusions.

Sometimes memories follow you wherever you go-you don't need to take them with you.

The same thing that had happened with the flowers was happening with my longing: once I held it in my hands, I didn't know where to put it.

Bea says that the art of reading is slowly dying, that it's an intimate ritual, that a book is a mirror that offers us only what we already carry inside us, that when we read, we do it with all our heart and mind, and great readers are becoming more scarce by the day.

In the shop we buy and sell them, but in truth books have no owner. Every book you see here has been somebody’s best friend.

Pocas cosas engañan más que los recuerdos.

I imagine some people, like some toys, are born defective - which I suppose makes us all broken toys, don't you think?

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

After a while it occurred to me that between the covers of each of those books lay a boundless universe waiting to be discovered while beyond those walls, in the outside world, people allowed life to pass by in afternoons of football and radio soaps, content to do little more than gaze at their navels.