“He who kills from afar knows nothing at all about act of killing. He who kills from afar derives no lesson from… — 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
“It really doesn't bother me," she said. "I've always thought it stupid to try to hide your age, or to pretend to… — Arturo Pérez-Reverte Copy Share Image
“I have spent my whole life trying to preserve a certain idea of myself, and that is all. You have to cling… — Arturo Pérez-Reverte Copy Share Image
Becoming a book collector is like joining a religion: it’s for life. — Arturo Pérez-Reverte Copy Share Image
“You make a pact with life and death: so many years as a king, and then...Say what you will, dirty money spends… — Arturo Pérez-Reverte Copy Share Image
“...despite my youth I already suspected that it did no harm to keep my ears open. Just the opposite. In life, danger… — Arturo Pérez-Reverte Copy Share Image
“You can get used to anything, especially when you have no option. If you have to pay, you pay; it's just a… — 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
