Carlos Ruiz Zafon Quotes

Where have the Americans gone?

I started with self gone missing.

I'm not vanishing into thin air.

Until, one day, she wasn’t.

People go away and they don't come back.

He'll come back to visit, but not to stay, not to live.

I feel I'm anonymous in my work. When I look at the pictures, I never see myself; they aren't self-portraits. Sometimes I disappear.

You know how it is here. A bit like the Bermuda Triangle. From time to time, one of us disappears.

It's an unknown, it's a disappeared. It has no identity, it's neither alive nor dead...it's disappeared

The thing about leaving New York is that you can come back.

The more he looked inside the more Piglet wasn't there.

Just think: what if you could just, just blink yourself away?

If you want to disappear, Emily, you can do it most anywhere.

Can you imagine how it is, to want to be neither inside nor outside, to want to be nowhere and disappear?

No magic. I do believe you might have taken it all with you when you went away.

This is when I realize that Anna has already left the table, and more importantly, that nobody noticed.

Everyone just keeps on disappearing. Some things vanish, like they were cut away. Others fade slowly into the mist. And all that remains is a desert.

It was a cool day and very clear. You could see a long way-but not as far as Velma had gone.

People dreamed. People left. And they all came back.

I guess I'm going to fade into Bolivian.

In everyone's life there are people who stay and people who go and people who are taken against their will.

After departure, only invisible things are left, perhaps the life of the world is held together by invisible chains of memory and loss and love. So many things, so many people, depart! And we can only repossess them in our minds.

Hes gone. Hes just gone.

We should be protected from the people who will leave us in the end, from all the people who will disappear or forget us.