Carlos Ruiz Zafón: Frases en inglés (página 5)

“It's the student who makes the teacher, not the other way around.”

“I've always thought that anyone who needs to join a herd so badly must be a bit of a sheep himself.”

“There was no more good or evil in this world than we imagine there to be, either out of greed or out of innocence. Or sometimes madness.”

“It is impossible to survive in a prolonged state of reality.”

“And here I was thinking you were a bit slow, what with so much asking and not knowing anything.”

“Everything can be forgiven in this world, save telling the truth.”

“Whether we realise it or not, most of us define ourselves by opposing rather than by favouring something or someone. To put it another way, it is easier to react than to act.”

“A good liar knows that the most efficient lie is always a truth that has had a key piece removed from it.”

“Money is like any other virus: once it has rotted the soul of the person who houses it, it sets off in search of new blood.”

“Our body begins to destroy itself from the moment it is born. We are fragile. We’re creatures of passage. All that is left of us are our actions, the good or the evil we do to our fellow humans”

“Time does to the body what stupidity does to the soul”

“We humans are willing to believe anything rather than the truth.”

“It's only worth staying in bed if you're young and in good company.”

“This cures everything except stupidity, which is an epidemic on the rise.”

“In this world the only opinion that holds court is prejudice.”

“I can't die yet, doctor. Not yet. I have things to do. Afterwords I'll have a whole lifetime in which to die.”

“All the geography, trigonometry, and arithmetic in the world are useless unless you learn to think for yourself. No school teaches you that. It's not on the curriculum.”

“All true stories begin and end in a cemetery" - The Shadow of the Wind”

“Sometimes, in difficult circumstances, one can confuse compassion with love.”