"Julian spoke about all that as if it didn't matter to him, as if it were part of a past he had left behind, but these things are never forgotten. The words with which a child's heart are poisoned, through malice or through ignorance, remain branded in his memory, and sooner or later they burn his soul."
Separate conversation:
"A good father?"
"Yes, like yours. 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."
From The Shadow of the Wind, by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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