I'm not talking to anyone, I'm delivering a monologue. It's the inebriated man's prerogative. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
Wine turns the wise man into a fool and the fool into a wise man. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
“Ne legyen már prűd, magunk között vagyunk, és tudjuk, hogy a férfiember a hiányzó láncszem a cápa és a disznó közt.” — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
Man is a moral animal abandoned in an amoral universe and condemned to a finite existence with no other prupose than to… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
A man must have vices, expensive ones if possible. Otherwise when he reaches old age he will have nothing to be redeemed… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
“Don't be bashful; we're among gentlemen. It's a known fact that we men are the missing link between the pirate and the… — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
The haunting of history is ever present in Barcelona. I see cities as organisms, as living creatures. To me, Madrid is a… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
Men are like chestnuts they sell in the street: they're all hot and they all smell good when you buy them, but… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
Driven by a wish to save Tomás from a life of penury and misunderstanding, Fermin had decided that he needed to develop… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
A good father. A man with a head, a heart, and a soul. A man capable of listening, of leading and respecting… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
Don Basilio was a forbidding-looking man with a bushy mustache who did not suffer fools and who subscribed to the theory that… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
They had parted as boys, and now life presented one of them with a fugitive and the other with a dying man.… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
Are you not tempted to create a story for which men and women would live and die, for which they would be… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
Sometimes I think that Darwin made a mistake and that in fact man is descended from the pig, because eight out of… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
Man...heats up like a lightbulb: red hot in the twinkling of an eye and cold again in a flash. The female, on… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
All interpretation or observation of reality is necessarily fiction. In this case, the problem is that man is a moral animal abandoned… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
I see cities as organisms, as living creatures. To me Madrid is a man and Barcelona is a woman. And it's a… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
Well, this is a story about books." About books?" About accursed books, about a man who wrote them, about a character who… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
“Our world will not die as a result of the bomb, as the papers say, it will die of laughter, of banality, of making a joke… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share
“I carried the trace of her lips, of her breath on my skin through streets full of faceless people escaping from offices and shops.” — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share
“Nekada davno, u djetinjstvu, možda is toga što sam odrastao među knjigama i knjižarima, odlučio sam da želim postati pisac i živjeti životom punim… — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share
“nations never see themselves clearly in the mirror, much less when war preys on their minds.” — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share
People might not agree with me, but I think a woman should have a feminine shape, something you can get your hands on. You,… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share
“But I couldn't absorb the idea that death could actually walk by my side, with a human face and a heart that was poisoned… — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share
Once I'd worked out that I couldn't possibly expect people to enjoy a monstrous, 3000-page book, I realised I could in fact create a… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share
The haunting of history is ever present in Barcelona. I see cities as organisms, as living creatures. To me, Madrid is a man and… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share
“The main pillar of organized religion, with few exceptions, is the subjugation, repression, even the annulment of women in the group. Woman must accept… — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share
“Bea says that the art of reading is slowly dying, that it's an intimate ritual, that a book is a mirror that offers us… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share
“Darwin was a dreamer, I can assure you. No evolution or anything of the sort. For every one who can reason, I have to… — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share
