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The Angel's Game (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #2) QUOTES

The Angel's Game (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #2) QUOTES

1 " We all give up great expectations along the way. "

― Carlos Ruiz Zafón , The Angel's Game (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #2)

2 " I can't die yet, doctor. Not yet. I have things to do. Afterwords I'll have a whole lifetime in which to die. "

― Carlos Ruiz Zafón , The Angel's Game (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #2)

3 " It is a part of our nature to survive. Faith is an instinctive response to aspects of existence that we cannot explain by any other means, be it the moral void we perceive in the universe, the certainty of death, the mystery of the origin of things, the meaning of our lives, or the absence of meaning. These are basic and extremely simple aspects of existence, but our limitations prevent us from responding in an unequivocal way and for that reason we generate an emotional response, as a defense mechanism. It's pure biology. "

― Carlos Ruiz Zafón , The Angel's Game (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #2)

4 " Every work of art is aggressive, Isabella. And every artist's life is a small war or a large one, beginning with oneself and one's limitations. To achieve anything you must first have ambition and then talent, knowledge, and finally the opportunity. "

― Carlos Ruiz Zafón , The Angel's Game (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #2)

5 " Senor Sempere believed that God lives, to a smaller or greater extent, in books, and that is why he devoted his life to sharing them, to protecting them, and to making sure their pages, like our memories and our desires, are never lost. "

― Carlos Ruiz Zafón , The Angel's Game (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #2)

6 " Do you know what religion is, Martin, my friend?
-I can barely remember Lord's Prayer.
-A beautiful and well-crafted prayer. Poetry aside, a religion is really a moral code that is expressed through legends,myths, or any type of literary device in order to establish a system of beliefs, values , and rules with which to regulate a culture or a society. "

― Carlos Ruiz Zafón , The Angel's Game (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #2)

7 " As I walked, I ran my fingers along the spines of hundreds of books. I let myself be imbued with the smell, with the light that filtered through the cracks or from the glass lanterns embedded in the wooden structure, floating among mirrors and shadows. "

― Carlos Ruiz Zafón , The Angel's Game (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #2)

8 " To Senor Sempere, the best friend a book could ever have: you opened the doors to the world for me and showed me how to go through them. "

― Carlos Ruiz Zafón , The Angel's Game (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #2)

9 " Ignatius B. Samson, welcome to the Cemetery of Forgotten Books. "

― Carlos Ruiz Zafón , The Angel's Game (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #2)

10 " I was no longer able to hear the music that issues from a decent piece of prose. "

― Carlos Ruiz Zafón , The Angel's Game (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #2)

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

― Carlos Ruiz Zafón , The Angel's Game (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #2)

12 " 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. "

― Carlos Ruiz Zafón , The Angel's Game (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #2)

13 " Every book has a soul, the soul of the person who wrote it and the soul of those who read it and dream about it. "

― Carlos Ruiz Zafón , The Angel's Game (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #2)

14 " Martin, at my age, eroticism is reduced to enjoying caramel custard and looking at widows' necks. "

― Carlos Ruiz Zafón , The Angel's Game (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #2)

15 " I discovered that seventeen-year-old girls have such huge verbal energy that their brain drives them to expend it every twenty seconds. On the third day I decided I had to find her a boyfriend -- if possible, a deaf one. "

― Carlos Ruiz Zafón , The Angel's Game (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #2)

16 " He truly was a man of faith. He believed in his friends, in the truth of things and in something to which he didn’t dare put a name or a face because he said as priests that was our job. Senor Sempere believed we are all a part of something, and that when we leave this world our memories and our desires are not lost, but go on to become the memories and desires of those who take our place. He didn’t know whether we created God in our own image or whether God created us without knowing what he was doing. He believed that God, or whatever brought us here, lives in each of our deeds, in each of our words, and manifests himself in all those things that show us to be more than mere figures of clay. Senor Sempere believed that God lives, to a smaller or greater extent, in books, and that is why he devoted his life to sharing them, to protecting them and to making sure their pages, like our memories and our desires, are never lost. He believed, and he made me believe it too, that as long as there is one person left in the world who is capable of reading them and experiencing them, a small piece of God, or of life, will remain” (p. 348). "

― Carlos Ruiz Zafón , The Angel's Game (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #2)

17 " I've always said that idleness dulls the spirit. We have to keep the brain busy, or at least the hands if we don't have a brain. "

― Carlos Ruiz Zafón , The Angel's Game (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #2)

18 " He was waiting for me at the best table in the room, toying with a glass of white wine and listening to the pianist who was playing a piece by Granados with velvet fingers. "

― Carlos Ruiz Zafón , The Angel's Game (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #2)

19 " -Do you think it's dirty money?
-All money is dirty. If it were clean nobody would want it. "

― Carlos Ruiz Zafón , The Angel's Game (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #2)

20 " It's possible, and I stress possible, that such a moment may never come: you may not fall in love, you may not be able to or you may not wish to give your whole life to anyone, and, like me, you may turn forty-five one day and realize that you're no longer young and you have never found a choir of cupids with lyres or a bed of white roses leading to the altar. The only revenge left for you then will be to steal from life the pleasure of firm and passionate flesh - a pleasure that evaporates faster than good intentions and is the nearest thing to heaven you will find in this stinking world where everything decays, beginning with beauty and ending with memory. "

― Carlos Ruiz Zafón , The Angel's Game (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #2)