Arturo Pérez-Reverte Quotes
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, but sometimes she will kill.
Actually loneliness has a kind of fascination; it's a state of egotistical, inner grace that you can achieve only by standing guard on old, forgotten roads that no one travels anymore.
Centuries of make-up that can be smudged by emotion have taught women to control their feelings.
You don't choose your friends, they choose you, and you either reject them or you accept them without reservations.
...the problem with words is that once spoken, they cannot find their way back to the speaker alone.
Chess is all about getting the king into check, you see. It's about killing the father. I would say that chess has more to do with the art of murder than it does with the art of war.
Because God and the devil could be one and the same thing, and everybody understood it in his own way.
An obscure flesh-and-blood Gascon, forgotten by History, transformed into a legendary giant by the novelist's genius
It really doesn't bother me, " she said. "I've always thought it stupid to try to hide your age, or to pretend to be younger than you are. Denying your age is like denying your life.
No fear is unbearable, she concluded, unless you've got time on your hands and a healthy imagination.
What about the future?""We'll talk about the future when it gets here.
Then she leant over and kissed him very slowly, with infinite tenderness. As if she had had to wait an eternity to do so.
You can make a text mean anything, especially if it’s old and full of ambiguities.