Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Carlos Ruiz Zafón Spanish: is a Spanish novelist...
NationalitySpanish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth25 September 1964
CountrySpain
shining lips seventeen
She was seventeen, her entire life shining on her lips.
giving-up what-matters good-times
But in good time you'll see that sometimes what matters isn't what one gives but what one gives up.
once-in-a-lifetime one-love lifetime
One loves truly only once in a lifetime, Julian, even if one isn’t aware of it.
memories loneliness heart
I could tell you it's the heart, but what is really killing him is loneliness. Memories are worse than bullets.
knowing our-words deeds
He didn't know whether we created God in our own image or whether God created us without quite knowing what he was doing. He believed that God, or whatever brought us here, lives in each of our deeds, in each of our words, and manifests himself in all those things that show us to be more than mere figures of clay.
atheist facts principles
In principle I'm an atheist, although in fact I have a lot of faith
girl years brain
I discovered that seventeen-year-old girls have such huge verbal energy that their brain drives them to expend it every twenty seconds. On the third day I decided I had to find her a boyfriend -- if possible, a deaf one.
talking people say-anything
You young people never say anything. And us old folks don't know how to stop talking.
doctors lifetime things-to-do
I can't die yet, doctor. Not yet. I have things to do. Afterwords I'll have a whole lifetime in which to die.
keeping-secrets people kept-secrets
A secret's worth depends on the people from whom it must be kept.
giving-not-receiving merit giving-back
Presents are made for the pleasure of who gives them, not the merits of who receives them.
truth book mirrors
Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you.
writing night dragons
I am a night creature, and I write from midnight till dawn, secluded in my office and surrounded by my collection of dragons (I have 400 of them). I only use Macintosh computers, which I name in dynastic order. Right now I'm using MacDragon 5. Only the devil is able to decipher my handwriting.
hurt blow faces
If only everything hurt as little as a blow to the face.