Perez.reverte Quotes

I once wrestled with an angel. He won, but I learned a few things.

...the miser is counting his gold pieces, unaware of Death, who holds two clear symbols: an hourglass and a pitchfork." "Why a pitchfork and not a scythe?" "Because Death reaps but the Devil harvests

He was not the most honest or pious of men, but he was courageous

The pistol is not a weapon, it is an impertinence.

Una biblioteca no es un conjunto de libros leídos, sino una compañía, un refugio y un proyecto de vida.

You can do everything right, strictly according to procedure, on the ocean, and it'll still kill you, but if you're a good navigator, at least you'll know where you were when you died. (In "The Nautical Chart" by Arturo Perez-Reverte)

He was laughing under his breath, like a cruel wolf, as he leaned over to light his last cigarette. Books play that kind of trick, he thought. And everyone gets the devil he deserves.

-¿Y vos? -Yo soy cosa mía.

But he was calm, like a hunter who is sure that he will catch his prey in the end, however confusing the trial.

la Armada Invencible; ya saben, cañonazo va y ola viene y todo a tomar por saco, con aquel pulso fatal entre nuestro buen Rey Don Felipe Segundo y esa arpía pelirroja que se llamó Isabel de Inglaterra, amparo de protestantes, hideputas y piratas, más conocida por la Reina Virgen, aunque maldito si puede uno imaginarse virgen de qué

Y que la vida es larga, hasta que deja de serlo

cada uno a su casa y Dios a la de todos

But that is the way of life, and that was but one of the first times, among no few to come, that I was taught a useful lesson about how appearances trump truth, and how villains hide their vices behind masks of piety, honour, and decency. And that to denounce evildoers without proof, attack them with weapons, trust blindly in reason or justice, is often the fastest road toward one's own perdition, while the scoundrels who use influence or money as a shield remained untouched.

What a lousy world, even Lucifer has to resort to the small print.

de curiosos están los camposantos llenos