After a while it occurred to me that between the covers of each of those books lay a boundless universe waiting to be discovered while beyond those walls, in the outside world, people allowed life to pass by in afternoons of football and radio soaps, content to do little more than gaze at their navels.
Carlos Ruiz ZafonThe moment you stop to think about whether you love someone, you've already stopped loving that person forever.
Carlos Ruiz ZafonIt is part of our nature to survive. Faith is an instinctive response to aspects of existence that we cannot explain by any other means - be it the moral void we perceive in the universe, the certainty of death, the mystery of the origin of things, the meaning of our own lives or the absence of meaning.
Carlos Ruiz ZafonTime goes faster the more hollow it is. Lives with no meaning go straight past you, like trains that donโt stop at your station.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon. . .sometimes one feels freer speaking to a stranger than to people one knows. Why is that?" โProbably because a stranger sees us the way we are, not as he wishes to think we are.
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