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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Well, this is a story about books." About books?" About accursed books, about a man who wrote them, about a character who broke out of the pages of anovel so that he could burn it, about a betrayal and a lost friendship. It's a story of love, of hatred, and of the dreams that live in the shadow of the… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share
I see cities as organisms, as living creatures. To me Madrid is a man and Barcelona is a woman. And it's a woman who's extremely vain. One of the great Catalan poets, Joan Maragall, wrote this famous poem in which he called Barcelona the great enchantress, or some kind of sorceress, and in which the city has this dark enticing… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share
“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
