Carlos Ruiz Zafón: Zitate auf Englisch (seite 2)

“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.”

“Few things leave a deeper mark on a reader than the first book that finds its way into his heart. Those first images, the echo of words we think we have left behind, accompany us throughout our lives and sculpt a palace in our memory to which, sooner or later--no matter how many books we read, how many worlds we discover or how much we learn or forget--we will return.”

“We spend a good part of our lives dreaming, especially when we're awake.”

“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.”

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

“Most of us have the good or bad fortune of seeing our lives fall apart so slowly we barely notice.”

“I swim against the tide because I like to annoy.”

“It’s a story of love, of hatred, and of the dreams that live in the shadow of the wind.”

“Over time, loneliness gets inside you and doesn't go away.”

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

“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.”

“Our world will not die as the result of the bomb, as the papers say, it will die of laughter, of banality, or making a joke of everything, and a lousy joke at that.”

“In small towns, news travels at the speed of boredom.”

“Never trust he who trusts everyone.”

“In those days I learned that nothing is more frightening than a hero who lives to tell his story, to tell what all those who fell at his side will never be able to tell.”

“Wars have no memory, and nobody has the courage to understand them until there are no voices left to tell what happened, until the moment comes when we no longer recognize them and they return, with another face and another name, to devour what they left behind.”

“The only way you can truly get to know an author is through the trail of ink he leaves behind him. The person you think you see is only an empty character: truth is always hidden in fiction.”

“When everyone is determined to present someone as a monster, there are two possibilities: either he’s a saint or they themselves are not telling the whole story.”

“Few things are more deceptive than memories.”