Quotes from zafon carlos ruiz v

I've always thought that we are what we remember, and the less we remember, the less we are.

Deep down we've never been who we think we once were, and we only remember what never happened.

Human nature provides the lyrics, and we novelists just compose the music.

The teachers tried everything, even pleading, but Tomas was in the habit of addressing them only in Latin, a language he spoke with papal fluency and in which he did not stammer. Sooner or later they all resigned in despair, fearing he might be possessed: he might be spouting demonic instructions in Aramaic at them, for all they knew.

Nothing is fair. The most one can hope is for things to be logical.

People might not agree with me, but I think a woman should have a feminine shape, something you can get your hands on. You, on the other hand, look like you might be partial to the skinny type, a point of view I fully respect, don't misunderstand me.

If only everything hurt as little as a blow to the face.

I would go to newsstands and buy paperbacks they were selling for tourists, usually bestsellers and mass market paperbacks. In the beginning, it was like going to the Rosetta Stone--I didn?t understand anything, I'd get a headache--but I began to figure it out, and I'd read a lot of Stephen King paperbacks. I've always said he was my English professor.

I was always fascinated by the fact that you could take paper and ink and create worlds, images, characters. It seemed like magic.

I'm not talking to anyone, I'm delivering a monologue. It's the inebriated man's prerogative.

Los Angeles is one of those places where somebodies become nobodies and nobodies become somebody.