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She was seventeen, her entire life shining on her lips.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

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Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Age: 55 †
Born: 1964
Born: September 25
Died: 2020
Died: June 19
Novelist
Publicist
Screenwriter
Barcelona
Spain
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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Seventeen
Shining
Lips
Entire

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I prefer you like this, when you're in a foul mood, because you tell the truth.
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I became a writer, a teller of tales, because otherwise I would have died... or worse.
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You young people never say anything. And us old folks don't know how to stop talking.
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