Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind
"I could tell you it's the heart, but what is really killing him is loneliness. Memories are worse than bullets."
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"I could tell you it's the heart, but what is really killing him is loneliness. Memories are worse than bullets."
Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind
"To truly hate is an art one learns with time."
Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind
"Nothing feeds forgetfulness better than war, Daniel. We all keep quiet and they try to convince us that what we've seen, what we've done, what we've learned about ourselves and about others, is an illusion, a passing nightmare. Wars have no memory, and nobody has the courage to understand them until there are no voices left to tell what happened, until the moment comes when we no longer recognize them and they return, with another face and another name, to devour what they left behind.p. 428"
Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind
"as long as we are being remembered, we remain alive"
Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind
"He would have liked to know that somebody wanted to keep him alive, that someone remembered him. He used to say that we exist as long as somebody remembers us."
Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind
"...until that moment I had not understood that this was a story about lonely people, about absence and loss, and that that was why I had taken refuge in it until it became confused with my own life, like someone who has escaped into the pages of a novel because those whom he needs to love seem nothing more than ghosts inhabiting the mind of a stranger."
Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind
"Never trust he who trusts everyone."
Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind
"Never trust anyone, Daniel, especially the people you admire. Those are the ones who will make you suffer the worst blows."
Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind
"The only thing I can recall is that it rained all day and all night, and that when I asked my father whether heaven was crying, he couldn't bring himself to reply. Six years later my mother's absence remained in the air around us, a deafening silence that I had not yet learned to stifle with words."
Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind
"Jacinta never told Penelope that she loved her. The nurse knew that those who really love, love in silence, with deeds and not with words."
Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind
"The words with which a child's heart is poisoned, whether through malice or through ignorance, remain branded in his memory, and sooner or later they burn his soul."
Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind
"In my schoolboy reveries, we were always two fugitives riding on the spine of a book, eager to escape into worlds of fiction and secondhand dreams."
Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind
"Destiny is usually around the corner. Like a thief, like a hooker, or a lottery vendor: its three most common personifications. But what destiny does not do is home visits. You have to go for it"
Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind
"Destiny is usually just around the corner. Like a thief, a hooker, or a lottery vendor: its three most common personifications. But what destiny does not do is home visits. You have to go for it."
Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind
"Julian spoke with the clear, unequivocal lucidity of madmen who have escaped the hypocrisy of having to abide by a reality that makes no sense."
Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind
"Right then, in a nutshell: this one hasn't a single bone of obedient-little-wife material in her heavenly body.''Hasn't she? Then what kind of bone does your expertise detect'Fermin came closer, adopting a confidential tone. 'The passionate kind,' he said, raising his eyebrows with an air of mystery. 'And you can be sure I mean that as a compliment."
Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind
"Making money isn't hard in itself... What's hard is to earn it doing something worth devoting one's life to."
Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind
"Making money isn't hard in itself,' he complained. 'What's hard is to earn it doing something worth devoting one's life to."
Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind
"future could be read much more clearly in the streets, factories, and barracks than in the morning press."
Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind
"I had never known the pleasure of reading, of exploring the recesses of the soul, of letting myself be carried away by imagination, beauty, and the mystery of fiction and language. For me all those things were born with that novel."
Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind
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