"Don’t learn how to find excuses for not writing before you learn how to write. That’s a privilege of professionals and you have to earn it."
— David Martin from The Angel’s Game by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
"The only way you can truly get to know an author is through the trail of ink he leaves behind him. The person you think you see is only an empty character: truth is always hidden in fiction."
— Cristina Sagnier from The Angel’s Game by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
"Señor Sempere believed that God lives, to a smaller or greater extent, in books, and that is why he devoted his life to sharing them, to protecting them and to making sure their pages, like our memories and our desires, are never lost. He believed, and he made me believe it too, that as long as there is one person left in the world who is capable of reading them and experiencing them, a small piece of God, or of life, will remain."
— The Angel’s Game by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
"I had always felt that the pages I left behind were a part of me. Normal people bring children into the world; we novelists bring books. We are condemned to put our whole lives into them, even though they hardly ever thank us for it. We are condemned to die in their pages and sometimes even to let our books be the ones who, in the end, will take our lives."
— The Angel’s Game by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
"This place is a mystery. A sanctuary. Every book, every volume you see, has a soul. The soul of the person who wrote it and the soul of those who read it and lived and dreamed with it. Every time a book changes hands, every time someone runs his eyes down its pages, its spirit grows and strengthens. In this place, books no longer remembered by anyone, books that are lost in time, live forever, waiting for the day when they will reach a new reader’s hands, a new spirit…"
— David Martin from The Angel’s Game by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
I am probably the farthest thing from a musician…
0/10 musical talent that is. However, it is still a big part of my life. I used to think music was this important to everyone, but some people don’t seem to care at all. Maybe that’s because they’ve got it all figured out…not me. I see someone playing anything, from a washboard to a grand piano and am absolutely and completely enthralled. How humans do it, how they create, write and live music is a still a mystery to me. I don’t think I will ever get it. I don’t think I will every join that world, forever standing on the sidelines, with my mouth hanging open and my eyes wide, my heart racing and my ears pleasantly ringing. It absolutely overwhelms me. I don’t necessarily want to join in the argument of what is music and what isn’t, but the music I know and the music I love, is all I need. Right now I’m listening to Interpol.
Dear followers, please confirm your existence
Are you alive?
"Well, what I’ve found most interesting so far is that, generally speaking, beliefs arise from an event or character that may or may not be authentic and rapidly evolve into social movements that are conditioned and shaped by the political, economic and societal circumstances of the group that accepts them. Are you still awake?"
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David Martin from The Angel’s Game by Carlos Ruiz Zafó
On religion…
"It is part of our nature to survive. Faith is an instinctive response to aspects of existence that we cannot explain by any other means, be it the moral void we perceive in the universe, the certainty of death, the mystery of the origin of things, the meaning of our own lives, or the absence of meaning. These are basic and extremely simple aspects of existence, but our own limitations prevent us from responding in an unequivocal way, and for that reason we generate an emotional response, as a defence mechanism. It’s pure biology."
— Andreas Corelli from The Angel’s Game by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
"I’ve never been a religious person. Rather than believe or disbelieve, I doubt. Doubt is my faith."
— David Martin from The Angel’s Game by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
"Ah, intellectuals. And you wanted me to sign one up. Why is it that the less one has to say the more one says it in the most pompous and pedantic way. Is it to fool the world or just to fool themselves?"
— Andreas Corelli from The Angel’s Game by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
I dont want to be here anymore
i dont want to stay here anymore
