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“The words with which a child's heart is poisoned, through malice or through ignorance, remain branded in his memory, and sooner or later they burn his soul.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind

“Someone once said that the moment you stop to think about whether you love someone, you’ve already stopped loving that person forever,”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind

“Jacinta never told Penélope that she loved her. The nurse knew that those who really love, love in silence, with deeds and not with words”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind

“Life on the street is short. People look at you in disgust, even the ones who give you alms, but this is nothing compared to the revulsion you feel for yourself.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind

“While you’re working, you don’t have to look life in the eye”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind

“Making money isn’t hard in itself,” he complained. “What’s hard is to earn it doing something worth devoting one’s life to.”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind

“Some disappointments honor those who inspire them”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón

“You tell Fumero, from Carax, that I remember his little sailor suit”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafón

“Wars have no memory, and nobody has the courage to understand them until there are no voices left to tell what happened, until the moment comes when we no longer recognise them and they return, with another face and another name, to devour what they left behind”
― Carlos Ruiz Zafon, The Cemetery of Forgotten Series Books 1 - 5 Collection Set by Carlos Ruiz Zafon

“صغيرٌ يطلبُ الكِبرا .. وشيخٌ ود لو صَغُرا
وخالٍ يشتهي عملا ً.. وذو عملٍ به ضَجِرا
ورب المال في تعب .. وفي تعب من افتقرا
وذو الأولاد مهمومٌ .. وطالبهم قد انفطرا
ومن فقد الجمال شكي .. وقد يشكو الذي بُهِرا
ويشقى المرء منهزما .. ولا يرتاح منتصرا
ويبغى المجد في لهفٍ .. فإن يظفر به فترا
شُكاةٌ مالها حَكَمٌ .. سوى الخصمين إن حضرا
فهل حاروا مع الأقدار .. أم هم حيروا القدرا ؟”
― عباس محمود العقاد

“It’s no accident your name’s José. You’ll be the sun, and the stars will shine around you”
― José Mauro de Vasconcelos, My Sweet Orange Tree

“She never went to school or learned to read and write. When she told me, I was so sad I promised that when I was a poet and wise, I’d read her my poems.”
― José Mauro de Vasconcelos

“Why do they tell little children so much at such young age?”
― José Mauro de Vasconcelos, My Sweet Orange Tree

“You can kill someone in your heart. Stop loving them. And one day they die.”
― José Mauro de Vasconcelos, My Sweet Orange Tree

“Mother taught us that we should share the little we have with those who have even less”
― José Mauro de Vasconcelos, My Sweet Orange Tree

“Is ‘sun of a gun’ bad as ‘son of a B’ ?”
― José Mauro de Vasconcelos, My Sweet Orange Tree

“I later heard, from Seu Ladislau, that despite my promise Portuga didn’t go home until very late that night, after the Mangaratib had passed”
― José Mauro de Vasconcelos, My Sweet Orange Tree