“The moment you stop to think about whether you love someone, you've already stopped loving that person forever.”

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón, book The Shadow of the Wind

Variant: 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

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