“Memories are worse than bullets.”
Carlos Ruiz Zafón book The Shadow of the Wind
Variant: There are worse prisons than words.
Source: La sombra del viento (The Shadow of the Wind) (2001)
“I could tell you it's the heart, but what is really killing him is loneliness. Memories are worse than bullets.”
Source: The Shadow of the Wind
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