Carlos Ruiz Zafón

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

Few things are more deceptive than memories.

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

We all give up great expectations along the way.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.