Carlos Ruiz Zafon Quotes That Will Inspire You to Live Your Best Life

1. Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you. The Shadow of the Wind

2. Cada vez que un libro cambia de manos, cada vez que alguien desliza la mirada por sus páginas, su espíritu crece y se hace fuerte. (Sempere) The Shadow of the Wind

3. Don't be bashful; we're among gentlemen. It's a known fact that we men are the missing link between the pirate and the pig. The Angel's Game

4. Few things are more deceptive than memories. The Shadow of the Wind

5. Making money isn't hard in itself,what's hard is to earn it doing something worth devoting your life to The Shadow of the Wind

6. Man...heats up like a lightbulb: red hot in the twinkling of an eye and cold again in a flash. The female, on the other hand...heats up like an iron. Slowly, over a low heat, like tasty stew. But then, once she has heated up, there's no stopping her. The Shadow of the Wind

7. Man...heats up like a lightbulb: red hot in the twinkling of an eye and cold again in a flash. The female, on the other hand...heats up like an iron. Slowly, over a low heat, like tasty stew. But then, once she has heated up, there's no stopping her. The Shadow of the Wind

8. One loves truly only once in a lifetime, Julian, even if one isn’t aware of it. The Shadow of the Wind

9. People talk too much. Humans aren't descended from monkeys. They come from parrots. The Shadow of the Wind

10. People tend to complicate their own lives, as if living weren't already complicated enough. The Shadow of the Wind

11. that as long as we are being remembered, we remain alive.

12. The dead never go to their own funeral. The Shadow of the Wind

13. The fact is that nothing is more difficult to believe than the truth; conversely, nothing seduces like the power of lies, the greater the better. It's only natural, and you will have to find the right balance. Having said that, let me add that this particular old woman hasn't been collecting only years; she has also collected stories, and none sadder or more terrible than the one she's about to tell you. You have been at the heart of this story without knowing it until today ... The Midnight Palace

14. The moment you stop to think about whether you love someone, you've already stopped loving that person forever. The Shadow of the Wind

15. There are few reasons for telling the truth, but for lying the number is infinite. The Shadow of the Wind

16. We are willing to believe anything other than the truth.

17. Max had once read in one of his father's books that some childhood images become engraved in the mind like photographs, like scenes you can return to again and again and will always remember, no matter how much time goes by. The Prince of Mist

18. Nothing important is learned; it is simply remembered. The Angel's Game

19. Senor Sempere believed that God lives, to a smaller or greater extent, in books, and that is why he devoted his life to sharing them, to protecting them, and to making sure their pages, like our memories and our desires, are never lost. The Angel's Game

20. They had parted as boys, and now life presented one of them with a fugitive and the other with a dying man. Both wondered whether this was due to the cards they'd been dealt or to the way they had played them. The Shadow of the Wind

21. Time goes faster the more hollow it is. Lives with no meaning go straight past you, like trains that don’t stop at your station. The Shadow of the Wind

22. Time has taught me not to lose hope, yet not to trust too much in hope either.

23. We all give up great expectations along the way. The Angel's Game