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Carlos Ruiz Zafón Quotes

1964–2020 Spain

Carlos Ruiz Zafón (25 September 1964 – 19 June 2020) was a Spanish novelist.

Spain
Novelists
Short story writers

Also known as: Carlos Ruiz Zafon, The Shadow of the Wind

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A secret's worth depends on the people from whom it must be kept.

La sombra del viento (The Shadow of the Wind) (2001)

Fools talk, cowards are silent, wise men listen.

La sombra del viento (The Shadow of the Wind) (2001)

There's no such thing as dead languages, only dormant minds.

La sombra del viento (The Shadow of the Wind) (2001)

Where he had failed, I would triumph.
Where he had lost his way, I would find the path out of the labyrinth.

The Angel's Game (2008)

There are worse prisons than words.

La sombra del viento (The Shadow of the Wind) (2001)

Coincidences are the scars of fate.

La sombra del viento (The Shadow of the Wind) (2001)

Wars have no memory, and nobody has the courage to understand them until there are no voices left to tell what happened, until the moment comes when we no longer recognize them and they return, with another face and another name, to devour what they left behind.

La sombra del viento (The Shadow of the Wind) (2001)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Carlos Ruiz Zafón (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.