Quotes About Barcelona

THE SHADOW OF THE WIND JULIÁN CARAX

The first person I heard mention Carax was Toni Cabestany

On one of his visits, he told me how, for a pittance, he'd just acquired the Spanish rights for the novels of Julián Carax, a young writer from Barcelona who lived in Paris. This must have been in 1928 or 1929.

I want you to make me believe.

I STILL REMEMBER THE DAY MY FATHER TOOK ME TO THE CEMETERY OF Forgotten Books for the first time. It was the early summer of 1945, and we walked through the streets of a Barcelona

Those were the days when Barcelona newspapers were steeped in reports warning that people were being killed in the streets. Unions for hired gunmen were doing well. Life was still as worthless as ever, but death had never been so cheap.

Mr. Fortuny lied to you. Julián didn't die in 1919." "Say that again?" "Julián lived in Paris until at least 1935, and then he returned to Barcelona.

yet there are days when I feel that a certain brightness is tentatively returning to Barcelona, as if between us all we'd driven it out but it had forgiven us in the end.

AFTERNOON OF MIST AND DRIZZLE, CLARA BARCELÓ STOLE my heart, my breath, and my sleep. In

Carlos Ruiz Zafón

Barcelona is a haunted house, Vargas. What happens is that you tourists never think of looking behind the curtain.

En Barcelona habitan más de un millón de personas, pero a la hora de la verdad apenas unas cuatrocientas son las que guardan las llaves de todas las puertas. Y esta es una ciudad de puertas cerradas donde todo depende de quién tiene la llave, a quién se le abre y en qué lado del umbral se queda uno.

En particular, me interesa saber si ha mencionado alguna vez un cementerio de los libros olvidados o muertos, o algo así. Piénsalo bien antes de contestar. ¿Te ha hablado Martín de ese lugar alguna vez?

There was no need to forbid the presence of the fair sex in the rooms because there wasn't a single woman in all Barcelona who would have agreed to enter that miserable hole, even under pain of death.

Barcelona, madre de laberintos, alberga en lo más sombrío de su corazón una madeja de callejones anundados en un arrecife de ruinas presentes y futuras en el que viajeros intrépidos y espíritus extraviados de todas condición quedan atrapados para siempre en un distrito al que, a falta de más certera advertencia, algún bendito cartógrafo tuvo a bien bautizar como el Raval.

In fact I don't think of literature, or music, or any art form as having a nationality. Where you're born is simply an accident of fate. I don't see why I shouldn't be more interested in say, Dickens, than in an author from Barcelona simply because I wasn't born in the UK. I do not have an ethno-centric view of things, much less of literature. Books hold no passports. There's only one true literary tradition: the human.

We have to remember, Mourinho worked at Barcelona. He has good memories of Barcelona. The club did well when he was here.

When I arrived at Barcelona and saw Messi's face, and later Luis Suarez, I felt like it was a videogame.

Messi is just great.

It's like Barcelona who have Messi. He decides games with his attacking play; Oblak resolves them with his saves.

Messi is one of the best in the world.

Barcelona is the best club in the world, and I am looking forward to playing with some of the best players in the world, such as Luis Suarez and Lionel Messi. I will do everything possible to contribute to this team.

I have the advantage of having worked with Messi and Mascherano at Barcelona.

Barcelona is the best club in the world; My team-mates are Ousmane Dembele, Philippe Coutinho, Luis Suarez, or King Lionel Messi.