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121 " The city was asleep, and the bookshop felt like a boat adrift in a sea of silence and shadows. "
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón , The Shadow of the Wind (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #1)
122 " The day I charge an unbeliever like you for the word of God will be the day I'm struck dead by lightning, and with good reason. "
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón , The Angel's Game (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #2)
123 " All interpretation or observation of reality is necessarily fiction. In this case, the problem is that man is a moral animal abandoned in an amoral universe and condemned to a finite existence with no other purpose than to perpetuate the natural cycle of the species. It is impossible to survive in a prolonged state of reality, at least for a human being. We spend a good part of our lives dreaming, especially when we're awake. As I said, pure biology. "
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón
124 " Justice is an affectation of perspective, not a universal value. "
125 " And as he watched them walk out of the orphanage, Thomas Carter would think of their lives as the blank pages of a book in which he had written the initial chapters of a story he would never be allowed to finish. "
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón , The Midnight Palace (Niebla, #2)
126 " [He] was a brilliant man. People tend to become wary of individuals like him because their brilliance reminds them of their own mediocrity. Envy is a blind man who wants to pull out your eyes. "
127 " Everything in life is nonsense. It's just a question of perspective. "
128 " Whether we realize it or not, most of us define ourselves by opposing rather than by favoring something or someone. To put it another way, it is easier to react than to act. Nothing arouses a passion for dogma more than a good antagonist. And the more unlikely, the better. … It’s difficult to hate an idea. … It’s much easier to hate someone with a recognizable face whom we can blame for everything that makes us feel uncomfortable. It doesn’t have to be an individual character. It could be a nation, a race, a group … anything. "
129 " I started off for home, where I planned to recruit a good book and hide away from the world. "
130 " [H]e lay awake, dreading the dawn when he would have to say good-bye to the small universe he had built for himself over the years. "
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón , El príncipe de la niebla (Niebla, #1)
131 " You young people never say anything. And us old folks don't know how to stop talking. "
132 " I guessed she must be, at most, twenty, but there was something about her manner that made me think she could be ageless. She seemed trapped in that state of perpetual youth reserved for mannequins in shop windows. "
133 " A young man is the perfect soldier. He has great potential for aggression and a limited critical capacity - or none at all - with which to analyze it and judge how to channel it. "
134 " A young man is the perfect soldier. He has great potential for aggression and a limited critical capacity—or none at all—with which to analyze it and judge how to channel it. Throughout history societies have found ways of using this store of aggression, turning their adolescents into soldiers, cannon fodder with which to conquer their neighbors or defend themselves against their aggressors. "
135 " Youth is like a fickle girlfriend. We can't understand or value her until she goes off with someone else, never to return. "
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón , Marina
136 " In those days I learned that nothing is more frightening than a hero who lives to tell his story, to tell what all those who fell at his side will never be able to tell. "
137 " I would have preferred someone else to have been in charge of rescuing this story, but once again life has taught me that my role is to be a witness, not the leading actor. "
138 " In the haunted shade of the Ateneo, her hands wrote a curse on my skin that was to hound me for years. "
139 " Whoever said that childhood is the happiest time of your life is a liar, or a fool. "
140 " Who 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. "