Cool & famous Quotes by : Carlos Ruiz Zafón

Most of us have the good or bad fortune of seeing our lives fall apart so slowly we barely notice.

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• Life

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.

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• Time

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

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• Love

People talk too much. Humans aren't descended from monkeys. They come from parrots.

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• Humor

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

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• Books

Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you.

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• Truth

If you really want to possess a woman, you must think like her, and the first thing to do is win over her soul. The rest, that sweet, soft wrapping that steals away your senses and your virtue, is a bonus.

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• Writing

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.

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• Inspirational

We all give up great expectations along the way.

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• Hope

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

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• Inspirational

Few things are more deceptive than memories.

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• Truth

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.

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• Books

People tend to complicate their own lives, as if living weren't already complicated enough.

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• Life Lessons

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

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• Love

There are few reasons for telling the truth, but for lying the number is infinite.

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• Truth

A story is a letter that the author writes to himself, to tell himself things that he would be unable to discover otherwise.

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• Writing

I was raised among books, making invisible friends in pages that seemed cast from dust and whose smell I carry on my hands to this day.

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• Books

There are no second chances in life, except to feel remorse.

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• Life

I still remember the day my father took me to the Cemetery of Forgotten Books for the first time.

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• Books