Martha Obrinteschi

“His 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 Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind

“All 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 Zafón, The Angel's Game

“It's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it.”
― Lou Holtz

“There are people you remember and people you dream of.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón