Man...heats up like a lightbulb: red hot in the twinkling of an eye and cold again in a flash. The female, on the other hand...heats up like an iron. Slowly, over a low heat, like tasty stew. But then, once she has heated up, there's no stopping her.
Carlos Ruiz ZafónTags: humor love men women sex
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 ZafónWe think we understand a song's lyrics but what makes us believe in them, or not, is the music
Carlos Ruiz ZafónWe spend a good part of our lives dreaming, especially when we're awake.
Carlos Ruiz ZafónTags: dreaming
Driven by a wish to save Tomás from a life of penury and misunderstanding, Fermin had decided that he needed to develop my friend's latent conversational and social skills.
Like the good ape he is, man is a social animal, characterized by cronyism, nepotism, corruption, and gossip. That's the intrinsic blueprint for our ethical behavior.
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Darwin was a dreamer, I can assure you. No evolution or anything of the sort. For every one who can reason, I have to battle with nine orangutans."--Don Anacleto
Carlos Ruiz ZafónTags: humor
It is impossible to survive in a prolonged state of reality.
Carlos Ruiz ZafónTags: reality
Few things are more deceptive than memories.
Carlos Ruiz ZafónTags: truth philosophy memory
Normal people bring children into the world; we novelists bring books. We are condemned to put our whole lives into them, even though they hardly ever thank us for it. We are condemned to die in their pages and sometimes even to let our books be the ones who, in the end, will take our lives.
Carlos Ruiz ZafónWhenever it poured like this, Max felt as if time was pausing. It was like a cease-fire during which you could stop whatever you were doing and just stand by a window for hours, watching the performance, an endless curtain of tears falling from heaven.
Carlos Ruiz ZafónTags: rainy-day
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