Carlos Ruiz Zafón - Time Quotes

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Whenever 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 Zafón
Whoever said that childhood is the happiest time of your life is a liar, or a fool.

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Time goes faster the more hollow it is. Lives with no meaning go straight past you, like trains that don't stop at your station.

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There are times and places where not to be anyone is more honourable than to be someone.

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One of the pitfalls of childhood is that one doesn't have to understand something to feel it. By the time the mind is able to comprehend what has happened, the wounds of the heart are already too deep.

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But in good time you'll see that sometimes what matters isn't what one gives but what one gives up.

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Time has taught me not to lose hope, yet not to trust too much in hope either.

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With women, the best part is the discovery. There's nothing like the first time, nothing. You don't know what life is until you undress a woman for the first time. A button at a time, like peeling a hot sweet potato on a winter's night.

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I still remember the day my father took me to the Cemetery of Forgotten Books for the first time.

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It's up to you how you waste your time and money. I'm staying here to read: life's too short.

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Every book, every volume you see here, has a soul. The soul of the person who wrote it and of those who read it and lived and dreamed with it. Every time a book changes hands, every time someone runs his eyes down its pages, its spirit grows and strengthens.

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Once you lost all hope, time began to go faster and the senseless days deadened your soul.

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