Chess is all about getting the king into check, you see. It's about killing the father. I would say that chess has… — Arturo Pérez-Reverte Art 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
One is never alone with a book nearby, don't you agree? Every page reminds us of a day that has passed and… — Arturo Pérez-Reverte Agree 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
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 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
“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 Dreams Copy Share Image
Actually loneliness has a kind of fascination; it's a state of egotistical, inner grace that you can achieve only by standing guard… — Arturo Pérez-Reverte Achieve Copy Share Image
Becoming a book collector is like joining a religion: it’s for life. — Arturo Pérez-Reverte Becoming 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
“He did not want to think, but it was inevitable that he would.” — Arturo Pérez-Reverte Copy Share Image
“He'd have given a rare incunabulum, in good condition, to punch the face of whoever was writing this ridiculus script.” — Arturo Pérez-Reverte 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
I once wrestled with an angel. He won, but I learned a few things. — Arturo Pérez-Reverte Angel 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 Copy Share Image
Centuries of make-up that can be smudged by emotion have taught women to control their feelings. — Arturo Pérez-Reverte Century 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
“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
“—Die letzte Karte spielt der Tod. —¿La última carta la juega la Muerte?” — 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 Death Copy Share Image
What about the future?" "We'll talk about the future when it gets here. — Arturo Pérez-Reverte Time Copy Share Image
“That was the problem with modern day witches , thought Corso : they didn't have any secrets . Everything was out in… — Arturo Pérez-Reverte Bored to death Copy Share Image
