Carlos Ruiz Zafon Heart Quotations

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.

Do you know the best thing about broken hearts? They can only really break once the rest is just scratches.

Few things leave a deeper mark on the reader, than the first book that finds its way to his heart.

I could tell you it's the heart, but what is really killing him is loneliness. Memories are worse than bullets.

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

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.

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

Who are the lunatics? The ones who see horror in the heart of their fellow humans and search for peace at any price? Or the ones who pretend they don't see what's going on around them? The world belongs either to lunatics or hypocrites. There are no other races on this earth. You must choose which one to belong to.

The fact is that nothing is more difficult to believe than the truth; conversely, nothing seduces like the power of lies, the greater the better. It's only natural, and you will have to find the right balance. Having said that, let me add that this particular old woman hasn't been collecting only years; she has also collected stories, and none sadder or more terrible than the one she's about to tell you. You have been at the heart of this story without knowing it until today ...