Carlos Ruiz Zafón quotes
Destiny is usually just around the corner. Like a thief, a hooker, or a lottery vendor: its three most common personifications. But what destiny does not do is home visits. You have to go for it. 
Don't be afraid of being scared. To be afraid is a sign of common sense. Only complete idiots are not afraid of anything. 
Sometimes one feels freer speaking to a stranger than to people one knows... Probably because a stranger sees us the way we are, not as he wishes to think we are. 
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. 
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. 
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. 
Paris is the only city in the world where starving to death is still considered an art. 
Presents are made for the pleasure of who gives them, not the merits of who receives them. 
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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.
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.