We had yet to learn that the Devil created youth so that we could make our mistakes, and that God established maturity and old age so that we could pay for them.
Carlos Ruiz ZafonThere was no more good or evil in this world than we imagine there to be, either out of greed or out of innocence. Or sometimes madness.
Carlos Ruiz ZafonA story is a letter that the author writes to himself, to tell himself things that he would be unable to discover otherwise.
Carlos Ruiz ZafonHis soul is in his stories. I once asked him who inspired him to create his characters, and his answer was no one. That all his characters were himself.
Carlos Ruiz ZafonAs it unfolded, the structure of the story began to remind me of one of those Russian dolls that contain innumerable ever-smaller dolls within. Step by step the narrative split into a thousand stories, as if it had entered a gallery of mirrors, its identity fragmented into endless reflections.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon