Carlos Ruiz Zafon Quotes

I can't imagine a decent maze that would be caught dead without a minotaur. It's not done! You don't go out of your house without any clothes on, and a minotaur doesn't go into the world without a labyrinth to keep him warm.

The minotaur more than justifies the existence of the labyrinth.

If I have to pick one story that most influenced 'The Hunger Games,' it would be the Greek myth of Theseus, which I read when I was about 8 years old. In punishment for past deeds, Athens periodically had to send seven youths and seven maidens to a labyrinth. In the maze was this Minotaur, and it would eat them.

If all the ways I have been along were marked on a map and joined up with a line, it might represent a minotaur.

"It's him," I said. "Typhon." I was seriously hoping Chiron would say something good, like No, that's our huge friend Leroy! He's going to help us!

Percy looked at Coach Hedge and Frank. “A trap?” “Probably,” Frank said. “She’s not mortal,” Hedge said, sniffing the air. “Probably some kind of goat-eating, demigod-destroying fiend from Tartarus.” “No doubt,” Percy agreed. “Awesome.” Hedge grinned. “Let’s go.

Chiron insisted that we talk about the Labyrinth in the morning which is like 'Hey, your life's in mortal danger. Sleep tight!

The labyrinth blows, but I choose it.

The question is always the same with a dragon: will he talk with you or will he eat you?

HYDRA, n. A kind of animal that the ancients catalogued under many heads.

The Sphinx-riddle. Solve it, or be torn to bits, is the decree.

I choose the labyrinth.

The last time I'd seen the Minotaur, he'd been wearing nothing but his tighty whities. I don't know why. Maybe he'd been shaken out of bed to chase me.

It is impossible for a cyclops to wink.

There are too many steps in this castle, and it seems to me they add a few every night, just to vex me" - Maester Cressen

There's no such thing as an easy anything.

i remembered the myth about Andromeda and how she had been chained to a rock by her own parents as a sacrifice to a sea monster. Maybe she'd gotten too many F's on her report card or something.

Some writers later, describing the events of that night and day, wrote that Wan'yen of the Altai had seen a spirit-dragon of the river and become afraid. Writers do that sort of thing. They like dragons in their tales.

When all combine in every way to make everything easier, people will want difficulty. I conceived it as my task to make difficulties everywhere.

Well I'm the Prince and I'm sort of slaying a dragon - which is something I've never done before, obviously.

Everything takes longer and costs more.

My armor is like tenfold shields, my teeth are swords, my claws spears, the shock of my tail a thunderbolt, my wings a hurricane, and my breath death!

It's much easier to point out the problem than it is to say just how it should be solved.