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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 43539c9 | I prefer you like this, when you're in a foul mood, because you tell the truth. | Carlos Ruiz Zafón | ||
| 5ff08ff | Perhaps part of your problem is that you've been reading the commentators and not the people they were commenting on. A common mistake but fatal when you're trying to learn something, | Carlos Ruiz Zafón | ||
| 7f84f6d | Despite myself I was beginning to get used to Isabella's company, to her jibes and to the light she had brought into that house. If things continued this way, my worst fears were going to come true and we'd end up being friends. | Carlos Ruiz Zafón | ||
| 307cecf | A man must have vices, expensive ones if possible. Otherwise when he reaches old age he will have nothing to be redeemed from. In fact, I'm going to have one with you, what the hell! | Carlos Ruiz Zafón | ||
| de4f8f3 | She had around her a burning aura of loneliness. | Carlos Ruiz Zafón | ||
| 78bf8ee | wm ldhy t`rfh 'nt? '`rf 'kthr mnk bkthyr fym yt`lq blns w lmsy'l ldnywy@. wkm y`lmn frwyd , flmr'@ trGb b`ks m tfkr bh 'w tw'kd `lyh. w hdh y`ny 'nh l twjd 'y mshkl@ Tlqan , dh tm`n fy l'mr jydan 'm lrjl , km y`lm ljmy` fykhD` ltnbyht jhzh ltnsly w lhDmy | Carlos Ruiz Zafón | ||
| ebd03e2 | And so, under cover of midnight, a couple of Sugus, and the spell of memories that were threatening to disappear in the mist of time, Fermin began to connect the threads that would weave the end and the beginning of our story.... | Carlos Ruiz Zafón | ||
| ae8fa0d | S'dbata vinagi se spotaiva toku zad 'g'la. Dosushch kato kradets, prostitutka ili prodavach na lotariini bileti. Onova, koeto s'dbata nikoga ne pravi, sa viziti po domovete. Chovek triabva sam da t'rchi sled neia. | Carlos Ruiz Zafón | ||
| 5a24dee | hl t`rf 'jml m fy lqlwb lmHTm@? nh ttHTm blf`l mr@ wHd@ fqT , wkl m yHl bh b`dy'dh mjrd khdwsh | Carlos Ruiz Zafón | ||
| 5058b73 | l shy qdr `l~ lt'thyr fy lqr~ 'kthr mn lktb l'wl ldhy yms qlbh Hqan | Carlos Ruiz Zafón | ||
| f7b8b79 | In my world death was like a nameless and incomprehensible hand, a door-to-door salesman who took away mothers, beggars, or ninety-year-old neighbors, like a hellish lottery. But I couldn't absorb the idea that death could actually walk by my side, with a human face and a heart that was poisoned with hatred, that death could be dressed in a uniform or raincoat, queue up at the cinema, laugh in bars, or take his children out for a walk to Ci.. | war | Carlos Ruiz Zafón | |
| bc94d6c | Tras somera inspeccion, Jorge de Leon dictamino que el cuaderno habia sido compuesto en una lengua ajena a la cristiandad y ordeno que sus hombres fueran a buscar a un impresor llamado Raimundo de Sempere que tenia un modesto taller junto al portal de Santa Ana y que, habiendo viajado en su juventud, conocia mas lenguas de las que eran aconsejables para un cristiano de bien. | Carlos Ruiz Zafón | ||
| 759a92f | Television, my dear Daniel, is the Antichrist, and I can assure you that after only three or four generations, people will no longer even know how to fart on their own and humans will return to living in caves, to medieval savagery, and to the general state of imbecility that slugs overcame back in the Pleistocene era. Our world will not die as a result of the bomb, as the papers say, it will die of laughter, of banality, of making a joke o.. | Carlos Ruiz Zafón | ||
| 4cad71d | For me those enchanted pages will always be the ones I found among the passageways of the Cemetery of Forgotten Books. | Carlos Ruiz Zafón | ||
| 9d66b68 | I threw up my breakfast, my dinner, and a good amount of the anger I was carrying with me. | Carlos Ruiz Zafón | ||
| 166ada5 | I let the remainder of the morning drift by between the alchemy of the music and the perfume of books, | Carlos Ruiz Zafón | ||
| 0dc954d | n 'fDl Tryq@ ltfdy tmrd lfqr, hy lsmH lhm btqlyd l'Gny | Carlos Ruiz Zafón | ||
| 9bb6089 | nHn nw'ss frDytn `l~ nmym@ rdyy'@ , f`ndm ySf ljmy` 'Hdan `l~ 'nh Gwl , fhnk Htmln : m 'nh qdys 'w nhm yzyfwn lHky@ | Carlos Ruiz Zafón | ||
| 4271112 | 'm lrjl, km y`lm ljmy` , ykhD` ltnbyht jhzh ltnsly wlhDmy | Carlos Ruiz Zafón | ||
| 7cc73cc | man is a social animal, characterized by cronyism, nepotism, corruption, and gossip. That's the intrinsic blueprint for our 'ethical behavior,'" he argued. "It's pure biology." | Carlos Ruiz Zafón | ||
| 1555c8d | In this manner, secretly, ....let the years go by, silencing their hearts and souls to the point where, from so much keeping quiet, they forgot the words with which to express their real feelings and became strangers... | Carlos Ruiz Zafón | ||
| d3f8866 | Like the good ape he is, man is a social animal, characterized by cronyism, nepotism, corruption and gossip. | Carlos Ruiz Zafón | ||
| abf16d1 | Puedo vivir con tu odio --dijo a la puerta cerrada--, pero no puedo vivir sin ti. | Julia Quinn | ||
| f9a12d9 | When the blade dulled, he sharpened it on the rock, an experience he admired-the surface that dulled it could refresh it as well. | Chris Offutt | ||
| 3e93ab3 | He wondered why a tree grew so close to the same water that would make it fall. Maybe trees were as greedy as people. | Chris Offutt | ||
| 88f8766 | It was country dark. He closed his eyes, feeling safe. | Chris Offutt | ||
| 1669d66 | Age is a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it don't matter" (Satchel Paige)" | L.J. Shen | ||
| f87e78f | One does not impose conditions on de Gaulle! | Alistair Horne | ||
| 9b5df49 | disposal of the "inconvenient"," | Alistair Horne | ||
| 03c11fc | De Gaulle at his iciest had reproached Challe: "One does not impose conditions on de Gaulle!" | Alistair Horne | ||
| d12b3af | We shall not have the Algerians with us, if they do not want that themselves.... The era of the European administration of the indigenous peoples has run its course. | Alistair Horne | ||
| 34e0f01 | From the Inquisition to the Gestapo and the "Battle of Algiers," history teaches us that, in the production of reliable intelligence, regardless of the moral issue, torture is counter-productive. As a further footnote to my tenet, learned in Algeria, that torture should never, never, never be resorted to by any Western society, I draw readers once again to the testimony of Prefect Teitgen of Algiers (see) which --three decades on--I still f.. | Alistair Horne | ||
| a0653de | The moment despair is alone, pure, sure of itself, pitiless in its consequences, it has a merciless power. Albert Camus | Alistair Horne | ||
| 446c07b | General Jacques de Bollardiere, a distinguished soldier who had fought in Norway, at El Alamein, with the maquis in the Ardennes as well as at Dien Bien Phu, and who was shortly to find himself seriously at odds with army policy in Algeria, criticises the professional army after Indo-China because: "instead of coldly analysing with courageous lucidity its strategic and tactical errors, it gave itself up to a too human inclination and tried .. | Alistair Horne | ||
| b889572 | In real life "Boisfeuras" had his opposite number in Colonel Antoine Argoud, another para whose extremity in belief and deed were to bring him notoriety later on. "We want to halt the decadence of the West and the march of Communism," declared Argoud in court during the Barricades Trial of November 1960: "That is our duty, the real duty of the army. That is why we must win the war in Algeria. Indo-China taught us to see the truth...." To me.. | Alistair Horne | ||
| a575295 | Monsieur le Gouverneur-General, you reason in the French of France, but we reason in the French of Algeria." It was not at all the same language, as was to become tragically plain later, and in order to understand events from 1954 onwards it is necessary to accept the existence of three totally distinct peoples -- the French of France, the French of Algeria, and the Muslims of Algeria." | Alistair Horne | ||
| 6695047 | the prosperity gap between very rich and very poor in France was less than that between the handful of most affluent grands colons of Algeria and the petit blanc; while between the latter and his Muslim competitor, the differential was, in contrast, extremely slender. | Alistair Horne | ||
| adc627e | In this admirable country in which a spring without equal covers it with flowers and its light, men are suffering hunger and demanding justice. Albert Camus, 1958 | Alistair Horne | ||
| 3045be0 | Myself, and the majority of officers in a position of command, will not execute unconditionally the orders of the Head of State. | Alistair Horne | ||
| ddd399b | One of my earliest surprises in Algiers was that in the Casbah, where the highly emotive Battle of Algiers had been waged against Massu's paras, there is not the smallest plaque or commemoration to indicate where such heroes of the Revolution as Ali la Pointe fought and died; and often it is hard to find residents who can guide or inform you, even though little more than a decade has elapsed. | Alistair Horne | ||
| 7576595 | The history of France, a permanent miracle," says Andre Maurois at the end of his Histoire de la France, "has the singular privilege of impassioning the peoples of the earth to the point where they all take part in French quarrels." | Alistair Horne | ||
| 124922a | Consulting de Gaulle whether he should be present at the flag-lowering ceremony or not, Fouchet after a pause of several seconds had been told simply: "Je crois que ca serait inutile...." | Alistair Horne | ||
| 71c5739 | Back in another untroubled summer, that of 1870, the British foreign secretary Lord Granville, gazing up from Whitehall, could detect "not a cloud in the sky." Yet a month later, Europe would be torn asunder by the Franco-Prussian War, marking the end of a century of Pax Britannica and all its optimistic assumptions." | Alistair Horne | ||
| c222535 | Qu'importe si cent mille coups de fusil partent en Afrique! L'Europe ne les entend pas. Louis-Philippe, 1835 | Alistair Horne |