01c. 1992 ADI would have preferred someone else to have been in charge of rescuing this story, but once again life has taught me that my role is to be a witness, not the leading actor.Carlos Ruiz Zafón / quote ↗
02c. 1992 ADIn the haunted shade of the Ateneo, her hands wrote a curse on my skin that was to hound me for years.Carlos Ruiz Zafón / quote ↗
03c. 1992 ADWhoever said that childhood is the happiest time of your life is a liar, or a fool.Carlos Ruiz Zafón / quote ↗
04c. 1992 ADWho are the lunatics? The ones who see horror in the heart of their fellow humans and search for peace at any price? Or the ones who pretend they don't see what's going on around them? The world belongs either to lunatics or hypocrites. There are no other races on this earth. You must choose which one to belong to.Carlos Ruiz Zafón / quote ↗
05c. 1992 ADI've learnt that solitude is sometimes a path that leads to peaceCarlos Ruiz Zafón / quote ↗
07c. 1992 ADVidal had his exuberant and stately tower in the most elegant and elevated part of Pedralbes, surrounded by hills, trees, and fairy-tale skies. I would have my sinister tower rising above the oldest, darkest streets of the city, surrounded by the miasmas and the shadows of that necropolis which poets and murderers had once called the "Rose of Fire.Carlos Ruiz Zafón / quote ↗
08c. 1992 ADLife has enough torturers as it is, without you going around moonlighting as a Grand Inquisitor against yourself.Carlos Ruiz Zafón / quote ↗
09c. 1992 ADAs he took them in his arms, the crying of the babies permeated the night like a trail of blood calling out to a predator.Carlos Ruiz Zafón / quote ↗
10c. 1992 ADAnd here I was thinking you were a bit slow, what with so much asking and not knowing anything.Carlos Ruiz Zafón / quote ↗
11c. 1992 ADYou talk as if Bea were a trophy.''No, as if she were a blessing,' Fermin corrected.Carlos Ruiz Zafón / quote ↗
12c. 1992 ADA secret's worth depends on the people from whom it must be kept.Carlos Ruiz Zafón / quote ↗
13c. 1992 ADAll business opportunities stem from someone else's inability to resolve a simple and inevitable problem.Carlos Ruiz Zafón / quote ↗
14c. 1992 ADOur world will not die as the result of the bomb, as the papers say, it will die of laughter, of banality, or making a joke of everything, and a lousy joke at that.Carlos Ruiz Zafón / quote ↗
16c. 1992 ADI couldn't help thinking that if I, by pure chance, had found a whole universe in a single unknown book, buried in that endless necropolis, tens of thousands more would remain unexplored, forgotten forever. I felt myself surrounded by millions of abandoned pages, by worlds and souls without an owner sinking in an ocean of darkness, while the world that throbbed outside the library seemed to be losing its memory, day after day, unknowingly, feeling all the wiser the more it forgot.Carlos Ruiz Zafón / quote ↗
17c. 1992 ADAll I know is that once Julián told the kids in the building that he had a sister only he could see. He said she came out of mirrors as if she were made of thin air and that she lived with Satan himself in a palace at the bottom of a lake.Carlos Ruiz Zafón / quote ↗
18c. 1992 ADBut I couldn't absorb the idea that death could actually walk by my side, with a human face and a heart that was poisoned with hatred.Carlos Ruiz Zafón / quote ↗
19c. 1992 AD... And what am I to do?""Well, that depends. Do you like the girl?""Like her? I don't know. How do you know if...?""It's very simple. Do you look at her furtively and feel like biting her?""Biting her?""On her backside, for example.Carlos Ruiz Zafón / quote ↗
20c. 1992 ADHuman beings believe just as they breathe - in order to survive.Carlos Ruiz Zafón / quote ↗
21c. 1992 ADIts impossible to initiate a rational dialogue with some one about beliefs and concepts if he has not acquired them through reason. It doesn't matter whether we are looking at God, race, or national pride.Carlos Ruiz Zafón / quote ↗
22c. 1992 ADA Gentleman's agreement cannot be broken without breaking the person who has entered into it.Carlos Ruiz Zafón / quote ↗
23c. 1992 ADThe only way you can truly get to know an author is through the trail of ink he leaves behind him. The person you think you see is only an empty character: truth is always hidden in fiction.Carlos Ruiz Zafón / quote ↗
24c. 1992 ADWe spend a good part of our lives dreaming, especially when we're awake.Carlos Ruiz Zafón / quote ↗
