Carlos Ruiz Zafón: Zitate auf Englisch (seite 6)

“A book is a mirror that offers us only what we already carry inside us.”

“If people thought a quarter of what they speak, this world would be heaven.”

“He would have liked to know that somebody wanted to keep him alive, that someone remembered him. He used to say that we exist as long as somebody remembers us.”

“That's what happens when people reach old age; nobody remembers they've been bastards too.”

“One is never wholly conscious of the greed hidden in one's heart until one hears the sweet sound of silver.”

“I leafed through the pages, inhaling the enchanted scent of promise that comes with all new books, and stopped to read the start of a sentence that caught my eye.”

“Death does that: it makes everyone feel sentimental. When we stand in front of a coffin, we all see only what is good or what we want to see.”

“A good friend once told me that the problems are like cockroaches. If drawn to light, they'll get scared.”

“Nobody had noticed, nobody had paid attention, but, as usual, the essential part of the matter had been settled before the story had begun, and by then it was too late.”

“If you don't know where you're going, you won't go anywhere.”

“In my schoolboy reveries, we were always two fugitives riding on the spine of a book, eager to escape into worlds of fiction and secondhand dreams.”

“Books hold no passports. There's only one true literary tradition: the human.”

“I prefer you like this, when you're in a foul mood, because you tell the truth.”

“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.”

“I tried to swallow his nonsense without choking.”

“The world's very small when you don't have anywhere to go.”

“Do you think it's dirty money?
-All money is dirty. If it were clean nobody would want it.”

“Some things have to be seen in the shadows”

“Everything in life in nonsense. It's just a question of persepctive”