Zafon Quotes

“When everyone is determined to present someone as a monster, there are two possibilities: either he is a saint orthey are not telling the whole story.”

“The same thing that had happened with the flowers was happening with my longing: once I held it in my hands, I didn't know where to put it.”

“Everything in life is nonsense. It's just a question of perspective.”

“Without further ado I left the place, finding my route by the marks I had made on the way in. As I walked in the dark through the tunnels and tunnels of books, I could not help being overcome by a sense of sadness. I couldn't help thinking that if I, by pure chance, had found a whole universe in a single unknown book, buried in that endless necropolis, tens of thousands more would remain unexplored, forgotten forever. I felt myself surrounded by millions of abandoned pages, by worlds and souls without an owner sinking in an ocean of darkness, while the world that throbbed outside the library seemed to be losing its memory, day after day, unknowingly, feeling all the wiser the more it forgot.”

“Keep your dreams, you will never know when you need them”

“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.”

“The day I die, all that was once mine will be yours, Julián, he would say. Except my dreams.”

“Jacinta never told Penelope that she loved her. The nurse knew that those who really love, love in silence, with deeds and not with words.”

“I still remember the day my father took me to the Cemetery of Forgotten Books for the first time. It was the early summer of 1945, and we walked through the streets of a Barcelona trapped beneath ashen skies as dawn poured over Rambla de Santa Monica in a wreath of liquid copper.”