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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
Someone once said that the moment you stop to think about whether you love someone, you've already stopped loving that person forever
"The female heart is a labyrinth of subtleties, too challenging for the uncouth mind of the male racketeer."
"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."
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,…
I still remember the day my father took me to the Cemetery of Forgotten Books for the first time.