“The ghosts of the people we could have been and weren't ... Isn't that what it is? The people we dreamed of being, until we were forced to wake from the dream." She was talking in a monotone, as if… — Arturo Pérez-Reverte Copy Share Image
“He who kills from afar knows nothing at all about act of killing. He who kills from afar derives no lesson from life or… — Arturo Pérez-Reverte Copy Share Image
“One day he reads his friend's novel and discovers that Ishmael's account and his own memories of what happened are completely different. So he… — Arturo Pérez-Reverte Copy Share Image
The world is full of banks and rivers running between them, of men and women crossing bridges and fords, unaware of the consequences, not… — Arturo Pérez-Reverte Copy Share Image
“You can still turn back, he told himself. In that way, none of what happened has ever happened, and none of what will take… — Arturo Pérez-Reverte Copy Share Image
“And then it struck her that life was sometimes so beautiful that it didn't seem like life at all.” — Arturo Pérez-Reverte Copy Share Image
“However, one certainty floated in the air: that night, at the end of a conversation that should have brought them closer, something had been… — Arturo Pérez-Reverte Copy Share Image
“What happens is that Fate, which enjoys spicing things up with a dash of the unforeseen, determines that everything must have an end, and… — Arturo Pérez-Reverte Copy Share Image
“[L]ife is like an expensive restaurant where, sooner or later, someone always hands you the bill, which is not to say that you should… — Arturo Pérez-Reverte Copy Share Image
“Whenever I got any money, I invested it in books. When my savings dwindled, I got rid of everything else—pictures, furniture, china. I think… — Arturo Pérez-Reverte Copy Share Image
“And which devil do you prefer? Dante's?" "No. Much too terrifying. Too medieval for my taste." "Mephistopheles?" "Not him, either. He's too pleased with… — Arturo Pérez-Reverte Copy Share Image
“Don Jaime relied on this to conserve what he defined as serenity: peace of mind and soul, the only fragment of wisdom to which… — Arturo Pérez-Reverte Copy Share Image
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