The words with which a child's heart is poisoned, whether through malice or through ignorance, remain branded in his memory, and sooner or later they burn his soul.
Carlos Ruiz ZafonAll interpretation or observation of reality is necessarily fiction. In this case, the problem is that man is a moral animal abandoned in an amoral universe and condemned to a finite existence with no other purpose than to perpetuate the natural cycle of the species. It is impossible to survive in a prolonged state of reality, at least for a human being. We spend a good part of our lives dreaming, especially when we're awake.
Carlos Ruiz ZafonI became a writer, a teller of tales, because otherwise I would have died... or worse.
Carlos Ruiz ZafonIf you think youโre the only person for whom life is painful, youโre wrong. And if you donโt mind letting yourself die like a dog, at least have the decency to remember that there are those of us who do care โ although, to tell the truth, I donโt see why?
Carlos Ruiz Zafon