Carlos Ruiz Zafon Quotes About Heart

Quotes about: Heart

• Once, in my father's bookshop, I heard a regular customer say that 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 Zafon

  Memories, Father, Book

• 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.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Children, Memories, Heart

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2005). “The Shadow of the Wind”, p.161, Penguin

• 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 Zafon

  Art, Book, Reading

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2005). “The Shadow of the Wind”, p.457, Penguin

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

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Heart, Broken, Scratches

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

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Memories, Loneliness, Heart

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2005). “The Shadow of the Wind”, p.407, Penguin

• 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.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Heart, Childhood, Mind

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2005). “The Shadow of the Wind”, p.43, Penguin

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

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Book, Reading, Heart

• A good father. A man with a head, a heart, and a soul. A man capable of listening, of leading and respecting a child, and not of drowning his own defects in him. Someone whom a child will not only love because he's his father, but will also admire for the person he is. Someone he would want to grow up to resemble.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Children, Growing Up, Father

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2005). “The Shadow of the Wind”, p.178, Penguin

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

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Heart, Nonsense

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2005). “The Shadow of the Wind”, p.406, Penguin

• 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.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Heart, Hypocrite, Race

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

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Sweet, Heart, Greed

• 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.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Lying, Believe, Heart

• You have to seduce the reader, manipulate their mind and heart, listen to the music of language. I sometimes think of prose as music, in terms of its rhythms and dynamics, the way you compress and expand the attention of a reader over a sentence, the way the tempo pushes you towards an image or sensation. We want an intense experience, so that we can forget ourselves when we enter the world of the book. When you are reading, the physical object of the book should disappear from your hands.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Book, Reading, Writing

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