Carlos Ruiz Zafón
"Never trust anyone, Daniel, especially the people you admire. Those are the ones who will make you suffer the worst blows."
"Perhaps for that very reason, I adored her all the more, because of the eternal human stupidity of pursuing those who hurt us the most."
"If you ever have a daughter, you'll begin, without realizing it, to divide men into two camps: those you suspect are sleeping with her and those you don't."
"Cinemas are full of lonely people, I thought. Like me."
"Army, Marriage, the Church and Banking: the four Horsemen of the Apocalypse."
"Our world will not die as a result of a bomb, as the papers say - it will die of laughter, of banality, of making joke of everything, and a lousy joke at that."
"People talk too much. Humans aren't descended from monkeys. They come from parrots."
"I didn't think he was happy in Paris. Though he gave the impression that he was one of those people who cannot be happy anywhere."
"Someone once said that the moment you stop to think about whether you love someone, you've already stopped loving that person forever."
"You cannot understand such things right now, because you're young. But in good time you'll see that sometimes what matters isn't what one gives but what one gives up."
"There are few reasons for telling the truth, but for lying the number is infinite."
"Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside of you."
"The nurse knew that those who really love, love in silence, with deeds and not with words."
"She suffers from a chronic narcissism that makes it impossible for her to see or understand anything that is not what she wants to see or believe, especially if it concerns herself."
"'And keep you dreams', said Miquel. 'You never know when you might need them'."
"When everyone is determined to present someone as a monster, there are two possibilites: either he's a saint or they're not telling the whole story."
"Never trust he who trusts everyone."
"While you're workin, you don't have to look life in the eye."
"It was my twenty-fourth birthday, and I knew that the best parte of my life was already behind me."
"'Makin money isn't hard itself,' he complained. What's hard is to earn doing something worth devoting your life to.'"
"You only love truly once in a lifetime, Julián, enve if you aren't always aware of it."
"Americans are inventing something called television which will be like cinema, only in your own home. There'll be no more need for books, or churches, or anything."
"Bea says that the art of reading is slowly dying, that it's an intimate ritual, that a book is a morrir 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."