Carlos Ruiz Zafón: Frasi in inglese (pagina 8)

“A secret's worth depends on the people from whom it must be kept.”

“A story is a letter that the author writes to himself, to tell himself things that he would be unable to discover otherwise.”

“I stepped into the bookshop and breathed in that perfume of paper and magic that strangely no one had ever thought of bottling.”

“People talk too much. Humans aren't descended from monkeys. They come from parrots.”

“There are few reasons for telling the truth, but for lying the number is infinite.”

“Don't be afraid of being scared. To be afraid is a sign of common sense. Only complete idiots are not afraid of anything.”

“The words with which a child's heart is poisoned, whether through malice or through ignorance, remain branded in his memory, and sooner or later they burn his soul.”

“… sometimes one feels freer speaking to a stranger than to people one knows. Why is that?"
“Probably because a stranger sees us the way we are, not as he wishes to think we are.”