Variante: Someone once said that the moment you stop to think about whether you love someone, you've already stopped loving that person forever.
Source: The Shadow of the Wind

“Memories are worse than bullets.”

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Carlos Ruiz Zafón livre L'Ombre du vent

Variante: There are worse prisons than words.
Source: La sombra del viento (The Shadow of the Wind) (2001)

“Never trust anyone, Daniel, especially the people you admire. Those are the ones who will make you suffer the worst blows.”

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Carlos Ruiz Zafón livre L'Ombre du vent

Source: The Shadow of the Wind

“I don't suppose you have many friends. Neither do I. I don't trust people who say they have a lot of friends. It's a sure sign that they don't really know anyone.”

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Carlos Ruiz Zafón livre Le Jeu de l'ange

Source: The Angel's Game

“In the shop we buy and sell them, but in truth books have no owner. Every book you see here has been somebody’s best friend.”

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Carlos Ruiz Zafón livre L'Ombre du vent

Source: The Shadow of the Wind

“But in good time you'll see that sometimes what matters isn't what one gives but what one gives up.”

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Carlos Ruiz Zafón livre L'Ombre du vent

Source: The Shadow of the Wind

“Presents are made for the pleasure of who gives them, not the merits of who receives them.”

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Carlos Ruiz Zafón livre L'Ombre du vent

Source: The Shadow of the Wind

“I was raised among books, making invisible friends in pages that seemed cast from dust and whose smell I carry on my hands to this day.”

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Carlos Ruiz Zafón livre L'Ombre du vent

Source: The Shadow of the Wind

“Sometimes we think people are like lottery tickets, that they're there to make our most absurd dreams come true.”

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Carlos Ruiz Zafón livre L'Ombre du vent

Source: The Shadow of the Wind

“that as long as we are being remembered, we remain alive.”

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Carlos Ruiz Zafón livre L'Ombre du vent

Variante: So long as we are being remembered, we remain alive.
Source: The Shadow of the Wind

“Silence makes idiots seem wise even for a minute.”

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Carlos Ruiz Zafón livre Le Jeu de l'ange

Source: The Angel's Game

“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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Carlos Ruiz Zafón livre L'Ombre du vent

Source: The Shadow of the Wind

“To truly hate is an art one learns with time.”

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Carlos Ruiz Zafón livre L'Ombre du vent

Source: The Shadow of the Wind

“Every time a book changes hands, every time someone runs his eyes down its pages, its spirit grows and strengthens.”

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Carlos Ruiz Zafón

“There's no such thing as dead languages, only dormant minds.”

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Carlos Ruiz Zafón livre L'Ombre du vent

Source: La sombra del viento (The Shadow of the Wind) (2001)