“But I couldn't absorb the idea that death could actually walk by my side, with a human face and a heart that… — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
“-No se puede entender nada de la vida hasta que uno no entiende la muerte-añadió Marina” — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
Paris is the only city in the world where starving to death is still considered an art. — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
Death does that: it makes everyone feel sentimental. When we stand in front of a coffin, we all see only what is… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
“Death does that:It makes everyone feel sentimental when in front of a coffin, we all see only what is good or what… — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
“I couldn’t absorb the idea that death could actually walk by my side, with a human face and a heart that was… — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
“There was no need to forbid the presence of the fair sex in the rooms because there wasn’t a single woman in… — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
Old age is the lubricant of belief. When death knocks at the door, skepticism flies out the window. A serious cardiovascular fright… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
“I looked at the group of human remains that languished in the corner and smiled at them. It occurred to me that… — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
“the art of reading is slowly dying, that it’s an intimate ritual, that a book is a mirror that offers us only… — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
It is part of our nature to survive. Faith is an instinctive response to aspects of existence that we cannot explain by… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
“The only thing I can recall is that it rained all day and all night, and that when I asked my father… — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
“A young man is the perfect soldier. He has great potential for aggression and a limited critical capacity—or none at all—with which to analyze it and judge how to channel it. Throughout history societies have found ways of using this store of aggression, turning their adolescents into soldiers, cannon fodder with which to conquer their neighbors or defend themselves against… — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share
“ I knew then that I would devote every minute we had left together to making her happy, to repairing the pain… — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
“It is part of our nature to survive. Faith is an instinctive response to the aspects of existence that we cannot explain… — Carlos Ruiz Zafón Copy Share Image
“When he noticed that the patient was awake, he smiled at him. "Are you a God or the devil? the dying man… — Carlos Ruiz Zafón 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
