Carlos Ruiz Zafón - Heart Quotes

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One is never wholly conscious of the greed hidden in one's heart until one hears the sweet sound of silver.

Carlos Ruiz Zafón

Bea says that the art of reading is slowly dying, that it's an intimate ritual, that a book is a mirror that offers us only what we already carry inside us, that when we read, we do it with all our heart and mind, and great readers are becoming more scarce by the day.

Carlos Ruiz Zafón

One of the pitfalls of childhood is that one doesn't have to understand something to feel it. By the time the mind is able to comprehend what has happened, the wounds of the heart are already too deep.

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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.

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You women listen more to your heart and less to all the nonsense. That's why you live longer.

Carlos Ruiz Zafón

Few things leave a deeper mark on a reader than the first book that finds its way into his heart. Those first images, the echo of words we think we have left behind, accompany us throughout our lives and sculpt a palace in our memory to which, sooner or later—no matter how many books we read, how many worlds we discover or how much we learn or forget—we will return.

Carlos Ruiz Zafón