Never trust anyone, Daniel, especially the people you admire. Those are the ones who will make you s...
CARLOS RUIZ ZAFóN Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you.
CARLOS RUIZ ZAFóN Every book, every volume you see here, has a soul. The soul of the person who wrote it and of those ...
CARLOS RUIZ ZAFóN People tend to complicate their own lives, as if living weren't already complicated enough.
CARLOS RUIZ ZAFóN I don't suppose you have many friends. Neither do I. I don't trust people who say they have a lot of...
CARLOS RUIZ ZAFóN Destiny is usually just around the corner. Like a thief, a hooker, or a lottery vendor: its three mo...
CARLOS RUIZ ZAFóN Human beings believe just as they breathe - in order to survive.
CARLOS RUIZ ZAFóN Presents are made for the pleasure of who gives them, not the merits of who receives them.
CARLOS RUIZ ZAFóN Making money isn't hard in itself... What's hard is to earn it doing something worth devoting one’...
CARLOS RUIZ ZAFóN Don't be afraid of being scared. To be afraid is a sign of common sense. Only complete idiots are no...
CARLOS RUIZ ZAFóN Fools talk, cowards silence , wise men listen
CARLOS RUIZ ZAFóN Envy is the religion of the mediocre. It comforts them, it soothes their worries, and finally it rot...
CARLOS RUIZ ZAFóN Nothing feeds forgetfulness better than war.... We all keep quiet and they try to convince us that w...
CARLOS RUIZ ZAFóN They had parted as boys, and now life presented one of them with a fugitive and the other with a dyi...
CARLOS RUIZ ZAFóN To truly hate is an art one learns with time.
CARLOS RUIZ ZAFóN . . .sometimes one feels freer speaking to a stranger than to people one knows. Why is that?"
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CARLOS RUIZ ZAFóN The words with which a child’s heart is poisoned, whether through malice or through ignorance, rem...
CARLOS RUIZ ZAFóN After a while it occurred to me that between the covers of each of those books lay a boundless unive...
CARLOS RUIZ ZAFóN Julian spoke with the clear, unequivocal lucidity of madmen who have escaped the hypocrisy of having...
CARLOS RUIZ ZAFóN Julian once wrote that coincidences are the scars of fate. There are no coincidences, Daniel. We are...
CARLOS RUIZ ZAFóN So long as we are being remembered, we remain alive.
CARLOS RUIZ ZAFóN Bea says that the art of reading is slowly dying, that it's an intimate ritual, that a book is a mir...
CARLOS RUIZ ZAFóN A story is a letter that the author writes to himself, to tell himself things that he would be unabl...
CARLOS RUIZ ZAFóN Once, in my father's bookshop, I heard a regular customer say that few things leave a deeper mark on...
CARLOS RUIZ ZAFóN The moment you stop to think about whether you love someone, you've already stopped loving that pers...
CARLOS RUIZ ZAFóN In small towns, news travels at the speed of boredom.
CARLOS RUIZ ZAFóN There are two things in life you cannot choose. The first is your enemies; the second your family. S...
CARLOS RUIZ ZAFóN Where he had failed, I would triumph.
Where he had lost his way, I would find the path out of t...
CARLOS RUIZ ZAFóN Sólo quiero que se haga justicia. Nada más. En toda mi vida he pensado que lo que quería era veng...
CARLOS RUIZ ZAFóN Every book has a soul, the soul of the person who wrote it and the soul of those who read it and dre...
CARLOS RUIZ ZAFóN Alicia bedachte ihn mit einem dieser Lächeln, die Türen öffneten und Vorsätze zum Schmelzen brac...
CARLOS RUIZ ZAFóN I stepped into the bookshop and breathed in that perfume of paper and magic that strangely no one ha...
CARLOS RUIZ ZAFóN Most of us have the good or bad fortune of seeing our lives fall apart so slowly we barely notice.
CARLOS RUIZ ZAFóN There are no second chances in life, except to feel remorse.
CARLOS RUIZ ZAFóN I knew then that I would devote every minute we had left together to making her happy, to repairing...
CARLOS RUIZ ZAFóN Paris is the only city in the world where starving to death is still considered an art.
CARLOS RUIZ ZAFóN 1I smiled bitterly, a defeated man pitifully begging a God in whom he had never trusted.
CARLOS RUIZ ZAFóN Doña Lorena, una bibliotecaria sabia que rondaba por allí por las tardes, siempre me preparaba una...
CARLOS RUIZ ZAFóN In those days I learned that nothing is more frightening than a hero who lives to tell his story, to...
CARLOS RUIZ ZAFóN He was a very private person, and sometimes it seemed to me that he was no longer interested in the ...
CARLOS RUIZ ZAFóN As he took them in his arms, the crying of the babies permeated the night like a trail of blood call...
CARLOS RUIZ ZAFóN Driven by a wish to save Tomás from a life of penury and misunderstanding, Fermin had decided that ...
CARLOS RUIZ ZAFóN A secret's worth depends on the people from whom it must be kept.
CARLOS RUIZ ZAFóN Dicen que un buen amigo es aquel que sabe recordar y olvidar a un tiempo
CARLOS RUIZ ZAFóN And as he watched them walk out of the orphanage, Thomas Carter would think of their lives as the bl...
CARLOS RUIZ ZAFóN The only way you can truly get to know an author is through the trail of ink he leaves behind him. T...
CARLOS RUIZ ZAFóN Ben invented mathematical theories that even he didn't manage to remember and wrote such bizarre tal...
CARLOS RUIZ ZAFóN Destiny doesn't do home visits... you have to go for it yourself.
CARLOS RUIZ ZAFóN Television, my dear Daniel, is the Antichrist, and I can assure you that after only three or four ge...
CARLOS RUIZ ZAFóN ...until that moment I had not understood that this was a story about lonely people, about absence a...
CARLOS RUIZ ZAFóN Some like to believe it's the book that chooses the person.
CARLOS RUIZ ZAFóN In the shop we buy and sell them, but in truth books have no owner.
CARLOS RUIZ ZAFóN There's no such thing as dead languages, only dormant minds.
CARLOS RUIZ ZAFóN I would have preferred someone else to have been in charge of rescuing this story, but once again li...
CARLOS RUIZ ZAFóN If there is a god, or hundreds of them, I hope they will forgive me for the harm I may have inflicte...
CARLOS RUIZ ZAFóN Who are the lunatics? The ones who see horror in the heart of their fellow humans and search for pea...
CARLOS RUIZ ZAFóN Man's meanness is a fuse in search of a flame.
CARLOS RUIZ ZAFóN One of the pitfalls of childhood is that one doesn't have to understand something to feel it. By the...
CARLOS RUIZ ZAFóN The nurse knew that those who really love, love in silence, with deeds and not with words.
CARLOS RUIZ ZAFóN Time goes faster the more hollow it is. Lives with no meaning go straight past you, like trains that...
CARLOS RUIZ ZAFóN Man...heats up like a lightbulb: red hot in the twinkling of an eye and cold again in a flash. The f...
CARLOS RUIZ ZAFóN I could tell you it's the heart, but what is really killing him is loneliness. Memories are worse th...
CARLOS RUIZ ZAFóN Sometimes we think people are like lottery tickets, that they're there to make our most absurd dream...
CARLOS RUIZ ZAFóN I was raised among books, making invisible friends in pages that seemed cast from dust and whose sme...
CARLOS RUIZ ZAFóN But in good time you'll see that sometimes what matters isn't what one gives but what one gives up.
CARLOS RUIZ ZAFóN In the shop we buy and sell them, but in truth books have no owner. Every book you see here has been...
CARLOS RUIZ ZAFóN There are few reasons for telling the truth, but for lying the number is infinite.
CARLOS RUIZ ZAFóN People talk too much. Humans aren't descended from monkeys. They come from parrots.
CARLOS RUIZ ZAFóN Memories are worse than bullets.
CARLOS RUIZ ZAFóN Fools talk, cowards are silent, wise men listen.
CARLOS RUIZ ZAFóN Our world will not die as the result of the bomb, as the papers say, it will die of laughter, of ban...
CARLOS RUIZ ZAFóN You end up becoming what you see in the eyes of those you love.
CARLOS RUIZ ZAFóN Sometimes, in difficult circumstances, one can confuse compassion with love.
CARLOS RUIZ ZAFóN Literature, at least good literature, is science tempered with the blood of art. Like architecture o...
CARLOS RUIZ ZAFóN When everyone is determined to present someone as a monster, there are two possibilities: either he�...
CARLOS RUIZ ZAFóN Poetry is written with tears, fiction with blood, and history with invisible ink.
CARLOS RUIZ ZAFóN We think we understand a song's lyrics but what makes us believe in them, or not, is the music
CARLOS RUIZ ZAFóN ...ответил я с энтузиазмом, которого не чувствовал.
CARLOS RUIZ ZAFóN Me abrumó la soledad que desprendía su persona y, a un tiempo, creí ver en su interior un abismo ...
CARLOS RUIZ ZAFóN This cures everything except stupidity, which is an epidemic on the rise.
CARLOS RUIZ ZAFóN And here I was thinking you were a bit slow, what with so much asking and not knowing anything.
CARLOS RUIZ ZAFóN He would have liked to know that somebody wanted to keep him alive, that someone remembered him. He ...
CARLOS RUIZ ZAFóN Few things are more deceptive than memories.
CARLOS RUIZ ZAFóN We seem to live in a world where forgetting and oblivion are an industry in themselves and very, ver...
CARLOS RUIZ ZAFóN Amilyen ősi, oly biztos e tapasztalat: mondd meg, mivel dicsekszel, s én megmondom, mi hiányzik l...
CARLOS RUIZ ZAFóN Aryami Bose's home had been closed up for years, inhabited only by books and paintings, but the spec...
CARLOS RUIZ ZAFóN The night I met him [he] told me that, for some reason, life usually grants us what we are not looki...
CARLOS RUIZ ZAFóN You should get more sun and fresh air. The other day I read in the paper that vitamin D increases ou...
CARLOS RUIZ ZAFóN It's impossible to initiate a rational dialogue with someone about beliefs and concepts if he has no...
CARLOS RUIZ ZAFóN An intellectual is usually someone who isn't exactly distinguished by his intellect. He claims that ...
CARLOS RUIZ ZAFóN A writer never forgets the first time he accepted a few coins or a word of praise in exchange for a ...
CARLOS RUIZ ZAFóN Never trust he who trusts everyone.
CARLOS RUIZ ZAFóN Never trust girls who let themselves be touched right away. But even less those who need a priest fo...
CARLOS RUIZ ZAFóN The fact is that nothing is more difficult to believe than the truth; conversely, nothing seduces li...
CARLOS RUIZ ZAFóN Poetry aside, a religion is really a moral code, that is expressed through legends, myths, or any ty...
CARLOS RUIZ ZAFóN Making money isn't hard in itself,what's hard is to earn it doing something worth devoting your life...
CARLOS RUIZ ZAFóN —Alguien dijo una vez que en el momento en que te paras a pensar si quieres a alguien, ya has deja...
CARLOS RUIZ ZAFóN Conserva tus sueños, nunca sabes cuando te harán falta.
CARLOS RUIZ ZAFóN That book taught me that by reading, I could live more intensely. It could give me back the sight I ...
CARLOS RUIZ ZAFóN In fact I don't think of literature, or music, or any art form as having a nationality. Where you're...
CARLOS RUIZ ZAFóN Poezję pisze się łzami, powieść krwią, a historię rozczarowaniem.
CARLOS RUIZ ZAFóN We spend a good part of our lives dreaming, especially when we're awake.
CARLOS RUIZ ZAFóN As it unfolded, the structure of the story began to remind me of one of those Russian dolls that con...
CARLOS RUIZ ZAFóN Bea dice que el arte de leer se está muriendo lentamente, que es un ritual íntimo, que un libro es...
CARLOS RUIZ ZAFóN Quelle erano le parole che voleva sentirsi dire, e alla fine cedette alla tentazione di crederci.
CARLOS RUIZ ZAFóN God gives us life, but the world's landlord is the devil....
CARLOS RUIZ ZAFóN I've always said that idleness dulls the spirit. We have to keep the brain busy, or at least the han...
CARLOS RUIZ ZAFóN The only thing I can recall is that it rained all day and all night, and that when I asked my father...
CARLOS RUIZ ZAFóN Everyone wanted to see [him] fall so they could devour his remains. As is usually the case, the army...
CARLOS RUIZ ZAFóN I'm not talking to anyone, I'm delivering a monologue. It's the inebriated man's prerogative.
CARLOS RUIZ ZAFóN Its impossible to initiate a rational dialogue with some one about beliefs and concepts if he has no...
CARLOS RUIZ ZAFóN Esta ciudad es bruja, sabe Usted, Daniel? Se le mete a uno en la piel y le roba el alma sin que uno ...
CARLOS RUIZ ZAFóN My friend Oscar is one of those princes without kingdom who wander around hoping you'll kiss them so...
-MARINA ; CARLOS RUIZ ZAFóN No estamos en un buen nivel y cada vez estamos peores. El resultado en contra nos pone pensar en el ...
CARLOS RUIZ For what?' they asked us, ... 'If we go there, we'll be deported,' they said. 'If we go, we'll face...
CARLOS RUIZ I think the fans are sad, because they come to see FC Dallas, and we can win at home,
CARLOS RUIZ I booked a flight last-minute to El Paso ... and the weather was gorgeous. It didn't seem like there...
CARLOS RUIZ It's hard you know, ... It's a lot of games - this team played last Wednesday in D.C. - it was a har...
CARLOS RUIZ It's OK if I score, but it's much better if my team wins.
CARLOS RUIZ It's the other Cup -- Lamar Hunt -- so it's not a big deal,
CARLOS RUIZ We had less than a week to get a team together. We don't even have a head coach yet.
CARLOS RUIZ I work to score goals -- you know, I haven't scored a goal yet this season. But I want to make an ef...
CARLOS RUIZ It's hard to start on the bench but these things happen. But the MLS season continues. I really want...
CARLOS RUIZ It's complicated, when it's raining like this, there's a lot of traffic and you got your speeders, w...
CARLOS RUIZ 'For what?' they asked us, ... 'If we go there, we'll be deported,' they said. 'If we go, we'll face...
CARLOS RUIZ I'm glad he's here because of all the chaos that went on with the other storm,
CARLOS RUIZ Carlos has a reputation for diving, and we've talked to him about it, but it's something that he's d...
CARLOS RUIZ I like the food. Raviolis. Cereal. Salad. Um, I don't like salad. It's green.
CARLOS RUIZ It's the other Cup -- Lamar Hunt -- so it's not a big deal, ... My hamstring, it's killing me. I tri...
CARLOS RUIZ 'For what?' they asked us, ... 'If we go there, we'll be deported,' they said. 'If we go, we'll fac...
CARLOS RUIZ With 'The Angel's Game', there was a lot of pressure from the expectations - expectation...
CARLOS RUIZ ZAFON The success of 'The Shadow of the Wind' made me very happy, but it did not change my perspec...
CARLOS RUIZ ZAFON When 'The Shadow of the Wind' became a success I had already been a working writer, I'd ...
CARLOS RUIZ ZAFON A modern-day Dickens with a popular voice and a genius for storytelling in any genre, Stephen King h...
CARLOS RUIZ ZAFON Shirley Jackson's writings are a must for aficionados of the gothic and of good literature.
CARLOS RUIZ ZAFON My childhood was surrounded by books and writing. From a very early age I was fascinated by storytel...
CARLOS RUIZ ZAFON I am a curious creature and put my finger in as many cakes as I can: history, film, technology, etc....
CARLOS RUIZ ZAFON I always had this childhood image in the back of my mind of this fantastic place where all the thing...
CARLOS RUIZ ZAFON I realised that I had always been writing things that other people wanted me to write and not what I...
CARLOS RUIZ ZAFON I've always ignored the labels people put on things.
CARLOS RUIZ ZAFON I'm a voracious reader, and I like to explore all sorts of writing without prejudice and without...
CARLOS RUIZ ZAFON My work as a screenwriter has influenced my fiction. Writing screenplays forces you to consider many...
CARLOS RUIZ ZAFON In Los Angeles you get the sense sometimes that there's a mysterious patrol at night: when the s...
CARLOS RUIZ ZAFON I'm interested in everything. I don't see why Borges can't work along with Neil Gaiman, ...
CARLOS RUIZ ZAFON I always felt that I was a writer, that was what I had to do.
CARLOS RUIZ ZAFON There are two things that I cannot live without: music and books. Caffeine isn't dignified enoug...
CARLOS RUIZ ZAFON I'm fascinated by the period that goes from the Industrial Revolution to right after World War I...
CARLOS RUIZ ZAFON The Cemetery of Forgotten Books is a metaphor, not just for books but for ideas, for language, for k...
CARLOS RUIZ ZAFON The Cemetery of Forgotten Books is like the greatest, most fantastic library you could ever imagine....
CARLOS RUIZ ZAFON I've always thought that we are what we remember, and the less we remember, the less we are.
CARLOS RUIZ ZAFON Mention the gothic, and many readers will probably picture gloomy castles and an assortment of sinis...
CARLOS RUIZ ZAFON I spend a lot of time in L.A., and when it rains there you get the entire rainfall for the year in t...
CARLOS RUIZ ZAFON The haunting of history is ever present in Barcelona. I see cities as organisms, as living creatures...
CARLOS RUIZ ZAFON Barcelona is a very old city in which you can feel the weight of history; it is haunted by history. ...
CARLOS RUIZ ZAFON We are not creators, we are actualizers
CARLOS GONZALEZ RUIZ 1. Be Impeccable With Your Word
Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the w...
MIGUEL RUIZ You can't go down 1-2-3 in two innings in a game like that. You can't after spending the past two da...
AUGUSTINE RUIZ I don't know what to expect. I would just like us to go out there and play hard. We have some good t...
AUGUSTINE RUIZ Carl can play anywhere because he is so versatile. John has done a good job of showing me that he wa...
AUGUSTINE RUIZ I am not satisfied with going from blowout losses to just losses. We are getting better as a team, b...
AUGUSTINE RUIZ I think the team is still hung up on what happened in Santa Rosa.
AUGUSTINE RUIZ I think it was one and fifteen?
AUGUSTINE RUIZ The kid's got a rocket for an arm. He's played in the outfield, but he wanted to try shortstop, and ...
AUGUSTINE RUIZ They will be our horses for us on the mound. They are the only returning players that have any exper...
AUGUSTINE RUIZ There is a huge amount of freedom that comes to you when you take nothing personally.
MIGUEL RUIZ You have to understand what the program was before. We were a recreation team. We had no discipline....
CAROLINA RUIZ We just couldn't stop them from scoring. Every time they came down the court, they scored.
CAROLINA RUIZ New coach, new plays, new style, new players. I don't think anyone really knows what to expect from ...
CAROLINA RUIZ I'm excited. I think anything could happen.
CAROLINA RUIZ They totally pulled it out at the end. Everyone kept their heads up.
CAROLINA RUIZ It was frustrating. I was beating myself up for fouling out again.
CAROLINA RUIZ It was awesome. It feels so good. You can tell when someone comes in too cocky. We're not a joke. We...
CAROLINA RUIZ I feel we should have won. We worked hard and the statistics show it, but we weren't really playing ...
CAROLINA RUIZ The measurement of good policy is the well-being of the community. I saw the human faces of failed p...
RAUL RUIZ The best [analogy] of what the UC Merced campus means to the San Joaquin Valley and Tulare County is...
FRED RUIZ Intel continues... to abuse their monopoly, and that's why, around the world, governments and re...
HECTOR RUIZ In my humble opinion, the PC as we have known it is in a continuous decline and being relegated to a...
HECTOR RUIZ Ray Benson, our good friend from Asleep at the Wheel, brought this together.
ALEX RUIZ It's also an expression of how we feel as a family, as a unit, and how we want the world to feel as ...
ALEX RUIZ We have a warehouse of music and a warehouse of talent in this band that we just want to give and ke...
ALEX RUIZ We pretty much let them know that if they get the league's top seed there's a great possibility of g...
CINTHIA RUIZ We are all adaptable to changes and self worth is priceless. adapt yourself to be independent (from ...
ABRAHAM RUIZ You express your own divinity by being alive and by loving yourself and others.
MIGUEL RUIZ Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the word to speak against yourslef or to g...
MIGUEL RUIZ I'm very happy to receive this type of recognition.
ANIBAL RUIZ It's true that we're very worried about this new injury to Roque. I hope he can be at the World Cup....
ANIBAL RUIZ This is the result of two years' hard work and the players have been rewarded.
ANIBAL RUIZ By delivering a complete service - from integrating and managing the service to providing the actual...
ANGEL RUIZ It's the Mecca. It's every fisherman's dream.
JUAN RUIZ Every human is an artist. The dream of your life is to make beautiful art.
MIGUEL RUIZ The Four Agreements
1. Be impeccable with your word.
2. Don’t take anything personally.<...
MIGUEL RUIZ You don't need to justify your love, you don't need to explain your love, you just need to practice ...
MIGUEL RUIZ The industry is healthy. Customers and partners that have elected to partner with AMD are seeing the...
HECTOR RUIZ A lot of it is non-verbal, so it translates really well.
RENé RUIZ You can have many great ideas in your head, but what makes the difference is the action. Without act...
MIGUEL RUIZ If others tell us something we make assumptions, and if they don't tell us something we make assumpt...
MIGUEL RUIZ Selfishness, control, and fear will break almost any relationship. Generosity, freedom, and love wil...
MIGUEL RUIZ I give a voice to the voiceless, keep an eye on border injustices and watch the ever-changing cultur...
HECTOR RUIZ You don't need to change the world; you need to change yourself.
MIGUEL RUIZ I think the personal satisfaction of doing good in the community and increasing value and holding tr...
RAUL RUIZ