Carlos Ruiz Zafón: Frasi in inglese

“Making money isn't hard in itself… What's hard is to earn it doing something worth devoting one's life to.”

“Do you know the best thing about broken hearts? They can only really break once the rest is just scratches.”

“Poetry is written with tears, fiction with blood, and history with invisible ink.”

“Fools talk, cowards are silent, wise men listen.”

“The moment you stop to think about whether you love someone, you've already stopped loving that person forever.”

“Memories are worse than bullets.”

“Never trust anyone, Daniel, especially the people you admire. Those are the ones who will make you suffer the worst blows.”

“I don't suppose you have many friends. Neither do I. I don't trust people who say they have a lot of friends. It's a sure sign that they don't really know anyone.”

“In the shop we buy and sell them, but in truth books have no owner. Every book you see here has been somebody’s best friend.”

“But in good time you'll see that sometimes what matters isn't what one gives but what one gives up.”

“Presents are made for the pleasure of who gives them, not the merits of who receives them.”

“I 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.”

“Sometimes we think people are like lottery tickets, that they're there to make our most absurd dreams come true.”

“that as long as we are being remembered, we remain alive.”

“Silence makes idiots seem wise even for a minute.”

“I could tell you it's the heart, but what is really killing him is loneliness. Memories are worse than bullets.”

“To truly hate is an art one learns with time.”

“Every time a book changes hands, every time someone runs his eyes down its pages, its spirit grows and strengthens.”

“There's no such thing as dead languages, only dormant minds.”