All true stories begin and end in a cemetery" - The Shadow of the Wind

Fools talk, cowards are silent, wise men listen.

somethings can only be seen in the shadows

Barcelona is a very old city in which you can feel the weight of history; it is haunted by history. You cannot walk around it without perceiving it.

Every labyrinth has its minotaur

The haunting of history is ever present in Barcelona. I see cities as organisms, as living creatures. To me, Madrid is a man and Barcelona is a woman. And its a woman whos extremely vain.

A good liar knows that the most efficient lie is always a truth that has had a key piece removed from it.

Waiting is the rust of the soul.

Sometimes we think people are like lottery tickets, that they're there to make our most absurd dreams come true.

One mustn't dream of one's future; one must earn it.

. . .sometimes one feels freer speaking to a stranger than to people one knows. Why is that?" “Probably because a stranger sees us the way we are, not as he wishes to think we are.

Happiness doesn't depend on how much you have to enjoy, but how much you enjoy what you have.

I have now taken a serious task upon myself and I fear a greater one that is in the power of any man to perform in the given time-but it is too late to go back.

Catch me, as if I have surely been out committing a violation against you, my sin of insisting on existing without you.

It was funny, though, the things you didn't learn about people until after they died.

The lens is a tyranny.

Have you ever had one of those moments when you look up and realize that you're one of those people you see on the train talking to themselves?

The first thing I learned was the theme from Peter Gunn.

I think I write or publish as much as I do because I can bear being without a book to work on.

What we considered to be so much part of our everyday fashion vocabulary today, where we see all these designers restarting with these big houses, was just beginning then [in the 90th].

Most people don't know where they stand. One day their boss gives them an eye roll, and it can set back their whole day. It causes enormous stress.