—No tienes derecho a decirme eso, Daniel. Tú no me conoces.
—Dime que estoy equivocado y me iré. ¿Le quieres?
Nos miramos un largo rato en silencio.
—No lo sé —murmuró por fin—. No lo sé.
—Alguien dijo una vez que en el momento en que te paras a pensar si quieres a alguien, ya has dejado de quererle para siempre —dije.
Un escritor nunca olvida la primera vez que acepta unas monedas o un elogio a cambio de una historia. Nunca olvida la primera vez que siente el dulce veneno de la vanidad en la sangre y cree que, si consigue que nadie descubra su falta de talento, el sueño de la literatura será capaz de poner techo sobre su cabeza, un plato caliente al final del día y lo que más anhela: su nombre impreso en un miserable pedazo de papel que seguramente vivirá más que él. Un escritor está condenado a recordar ese momento, porque para entonces ya está perdido y su alma tiene precio.
Carlos Ruiz ZafónWhoever said that childhood is the happiest time of your life is a liar, or a fool.
Carlos Ruiz ZafónStichwörter: childhood liar fool happiest-time-of-your-life
The fact is that nothing is more difficult to believe than the truth; conversely, nothing seduces like the power of lies, the greater the better. It's only natural, and you will have to find the right balance. Having said that, let me add that this particular old woman hasn't been collecting only years; she has also collected stories, and none sadder or more terrible than the one she's about to tell you. You have been at the heart of this story without knowing it until today ...
Carlos Ruiz ZafónStichwörter: truth lies stories balance years collecting at-the-heart-of-the-story more-terrible old-woman sadder
If there is a god, or hundreds of them, I hope they will forgive me for the harm I may have inflicted on you by telling you exactly what happened.
Carlos Ruiz ZafónStichwörter: harm god telling-the-truth forgive-me
I would have preferred someone else to have been in charge of rescuing this story, but once again life has taught me that my role is to be a witness, not the leading actor.
Carlos Ruiz ZafónStichwörter: story witness leading-actor
Delving into the past had unveiled a cruel lesson - that in the book of life it is perhaps best not to turn back pages; it was a path on which, whatever direction we took, we'd never be able to choose our own destiny.
Carlos Ruiz ZafónStichwörter: past direction path choose-our-own-destiny cruel-lesson turning-back-the-pages
There are two things in life you cannot choose. The first is your enemies; the second your family. Sometimes the difference between them is hard to see, but in the end time will show you that the cards you have been dealt could always have been worse.
Carlos Ruiz ZafónStichwörter: family difference enemies cards-you-have-been-dealt could-have-been-worse
And as he watched them walk out of the orphanage, Thomas Carter would think of their lives as the blank pages of a book in which he had written the initial chapters of a story he would never be allowed to finish.
Carlos Ruiz ZafónStichwörter: story book orphanage blank-pages chapters never-finish
Ben invented mathematical theories that even he didn't manage to remember and wrote such bizarre tales of adventure that he ended up destroying them a week after they were finished, embarrassed at the thought that he had penned them.
Carlos Ruiz ZafónStichwörter: adventure tales embarrassed
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