In those days I learned that nothing is more frightening than a hero who lives to tell his story, to tell what all those who fell at his side will never be able to tell.
Carlos Ruiz ZafonI can't die yet, doctor. Not yet. I have things to do. Afterwords I'll have a whole lifetime in which to die.
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 ZafonDeath does that: it makes everyone feel sentimental. When we stand in front of a coffin, we all see only what is good or what we want to see.
Carlos Ruiz ZafonI was secretly convinced that with such a marvel one would be able to write anything, from novels to encyclopedias, and letters whose supernatural power would surpass any postal limitations--a letter written with that pen would reach the most remote corners of the world, even that unknowable place to which my father said my mother had gone and from where she would never return.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon