...until that moment I had not understood that this was a story about lonely people, about absence and loss, and that that was why I had taken refuge in it until it became confused with my own life, like someone who has escaped into the pages of a novel because those whom he needs to love seem nothing more than ghosts inhabiting the mind of a stranger.
Carlos Ruiz ZafonLiterature, at least good literature, is science tempered with the blood of art. Like architecture or music.
Carlos Ruiz ZafonThe most efficient way of rendering the poor harmless is to teach them to want to imitate the rich.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon