Carlos Ruiz Zafon Mind Quotations

I always had this childhood image in the back of my mind of this fantastic place where all the things I liked came from; Orson Welles, jazz, all that stuff. Los Angeles is one of those places where somebodies become nobodies and nobodies become somebody.

He lost himself in the words and images conjured in his mind and for a while forgot ... He found himself flying among stars and planets ...

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.

The greatest multiplex in the universe is inside your mind, and the only ticket you need is a good, well-written novel.

If you think you’re the only person for whom life is painful, you’re wrong. And if you don’t mind letting yourself die like a dog, at least have the decency to remember that there are those of us who do care – although, to tell the truth, I don’t see why?

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