Carlos Ruiz Zafón: Frases en inglés (página 3)

“It's up to you how you waste your time and money. I'm staying here to read: life's too short.”

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

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

“Keep your dreams, you never know when you might need them.”

“Never trust girls who let themselves be touched right away. But even less those who need a priest for approval.”

“Nothing important is learned; it is simply remembered.”

“Literature, at least good literature, is science tempered with the blood of art. Like architecture or music.”

“It's curious how easy it is to tell a piece of paper what you don't dare say to someone's face.”

“Julian once wrote that coincidences are the scars of fate. There are no coincidences, Daniel. We are puppets of our subconscious desires.”

“We exist as long as somebody remembers us.”

“The most efficient way of rendering the poor harmless is to teach them to want to imitate the rich.”

“I decided that my existence would be one of books and silence.”

“That book taught me that by reading, I could live more intensely. It could give me back the sight I had lost. For that reason alone, a book that didn't matter to anyone changed my life.”

“Human beings believe just as they breathe - in order to survive.”

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

“I'm not talking to anyone, I'm delivering a monologue. It's the inebriated man's prerogative.”

“I turned you into a stranger in order to forget you and now I'm the stranger.”

“I think you judge yourself too severely, a quality that always distinguishes people of true worth.”

“Julian spoke with the clear, unequivocal lucidity of madmen who have escaped the hypocrisy of having to abide by a reality that makes no sense.”