Becoming a book collector is like joining a religion: it’s for life. — Arturo Pérez-Reverte Becoming Copy Share Image
“The pistol is not a weapon, it is an impertinence.” — Arturo Perez-Reverte Amendment Copy Share Image
“He did not want to think, but it was inevitable that he would.” — Arturo Pérez-Reverte Copy Share Image
“You can make a text mean anything, especially if it’s old and full of ambiguities.” — Arturo Pérez-Reverte Ambiguities Copy Share Image
“Who are you?" "The devil," she said. "The devil in love.” — Arturo Pérez-Reverte Arturo-perez-reverte Copy Share Image
What about the future?" "We'll talk about the future when it gets here. — Arturo Pérez-Reverte Future Copy Share Image
“It was one of Diego Alatriste's virtues that he could make friends in Hell.” — Arturo Pérez-Reverte Friends Copy Share Image
Because God and the devil could be one and the same thing, and everybody understood it in his own way. — Arturo Pérez-Reverte Devil Copy Share Image
“But he was calm, like a hunter who is sure that he will catch his prey in the end, however confusing the… — Arturo Perez-Reverte Calm Copy Share Image
You don't choose your friends, they choose you, and you either reject them or you accept them without reservations. — Arturo Pérez-Reverte Accepting Copy Share Image
She loves you, loathes you, treats you well, then ill. Like a leech or a surgeon's knife, she's double-edged: sometimes she'll cure,… — Arturo Pérez-Reverte Cures Copy Share Image
...the problem with words is that once spoken, they cannot find their way back to the speaker alone. — Arturo Pérez-Reverte Language Copy Share Image
“She had discovered with surprise and pleasure that as she turned each page, the book was written, as if for the first… — Arturo Pérez-Reverte Book Copy Share Image
“—Una vez me dijiste algo —recordó él—. «Me gusta que hagas lo que otros se resignan a soñar.»” — Arturo Pérez-Reverte Amor Copy Share Image
“You're forgetting about God. He doesn't interest me. God tolerates the intolerable, he is irresponsible and inconsistent. He is not a gentleman.” — Arturo Pérez-Reverte Intolerable Copy Share Image
“As for myself, I would just say that, because of what I am, I can at least look myself in the face… — Arturo Pérez-Reverte Copy Share Image
You’ve just mentioned the price that has to be paid…Pride, freedom…Knowledge. Whether at the beginning or at the end, you have to… — Arturo Pérez-Reverte Courage 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… — Arturo Pérez-Reverte Destiny Copy Share Image
Of all the universal lies she accepted unquestioningly, the happy ending was the most absurd. The hero and heroine lived happily ever… — Arturo Pérez-Reverte Absurd 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 Life 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… — Arturo Pérez-Reverte Bridges Copy Share Image
he looked around at the books on the walls, at their dark, worn spines, and he seemed to hear a strange, distant… — Arturo Pérez-Reverte Behinds Copy Share Image
“...the miser is counting his gold pieces, unaware of Death, who holds two clear symbols: an hourglass and a pitchfork." "Why a… — Arturo Perez-Reverte Miser 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.… — Arturo Pérez-Reverte Friendship Copy Share Image
“The ghosts of the people we could have been and weren't ... Isn't that what it is? The people we dreamed of… — Arturo Pérez-Reverte Dreamed 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… — Arturo Pérez-Reverte Death Copy Share Image
“We find ourselves in the last of the three generations history chooses to repeat every now and then. The first generation needs… — Arturo Pérez-Reverte Generations Copy Share Image
“The sea was cruel and selfish as human beings, and in its monstrous simplicity had no notion of complexities like pity, wounding,… — Arturo Pérez-Reverte Grim 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… — Arturo Pérez-Reverte Devil 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… — Arturo Pérez-Reverte Communication Copy Share Image
“—Die letzte Karte spielt der Tod. —¿La última carta la juega la Muerte?” — Arturo Pérez-Reverte Amor Copy Share Image
“He was not the most honest or pious of men, but he was courageous” — arturo perez-reverte Courage Copy Share Image
I once wrestled with an angel. He won, but I learned a few things. — Arturo Pérez-Reverte Angel Copy Share Image
“If you're hoping for salvation or whatever, it has very little merit in it. I was referring to the final battle on… — Arturo Pérez-Reverte Salvation 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… — Arturo Pérez-Reverte Told Copy Share Image
