Disarmed, I realized how easily you can lose all animosity toward someone you've deemed your enemy as soon as that person stops behaving as such.
Carlos Ruiz ZafonWho are the lunatics? The ones who see horror in the heart of their fellow humans and search for peace at any price? Or the ones who pretend they don't see what's going on around them? The world belongs either to lunatics or hypocrites. There are no other races on this earth. You must choose which one to belong to.
Carlos Ruiz ZafonI was raised among books, making invisible friends in pages that seemed cast from dust and whose smell I carry on my hands to this day.
Carlos Ruiz ZafonBut in good time you'll see that sometimes what matters isn't what one gives but what one gives up.
Carlos Ruiz ZafonDo you know the best thing about broken hearts? They can only really break once the rest is just scratches.
Carlos Ruiz ZafonOnce, in my father's bookshop, I heard a regular customer say that 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 laterโno matter how many books we read, how many worlds we discover, or how much we learn or forgetโwe will return.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon