Whoever said that childhood is the happiest time of your life is a liar, or a fool. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
The words with which a child's heart is poisoned, whether through malice or through ignorance, remain branded in his memory, and sooner… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
My childhood was surrounded by books and writing. From a very early age I was fascinated by storytelling, by the printed word,… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
One of the pitfalls of childhood is that one doesn't have to understand something to feel it. By the time the mind… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
In those days, Christmas still retained a certain aura of magic and mystery. The powdery light of winter, the hopeful expressions of… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
I was very bored at school. I found it very easy and slow and grey. My teachers didn't really know how to… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
“Max had once read in one of his father's books that some childhood images become engraved in the mind like photographs, like… — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
I always had this childhood image in the back of my mind of this fantastic place where all the things I liked… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
“Nature is like a careless child playing with our lives. When it tires of its broken toys, it abandons them and replaces… — Carlos Ruiz Zafón 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
Normal people bring children into the world; we novelists bring books. We are condemned to put our whole lives into them, even… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
“...anyhow, as I was saying, if you ever have a daughter, you'll begin, without realizing it, to divide men into two camps:… — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
For some reason, I never felt the need to have kids. My wife feels the same. We don't feel a void. I… — 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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“nations never see themselves clearly in the mirror, much less when war preys on their minds.” — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
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 Image
“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 Image
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 labyrinth of a story with four different points of entry. But what interested me was creating something that would rearrange itself every time you read one of the other books. So depending on which order you… — 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 Image
“The main pillar of organized religion, with few exceptions, is the subjugation, repression, even the annulment of women in the group. Woman must accept the role of an ethereal, passive, and maternal presence, never of authority or independence, or she will have to suffer the consequences. She might have a place of honor in the symbolism, but not in the… — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share
