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1 " She had that look - scared and sort of paralysed but frantic underneath - that girls got when they could think of only the one thing. It was a look that told him it would be her first time. "
― Benjamin Black , Christine Falls (Quirke, #1)
2 " But sometimes when you are getting nowhere, you have to give the wasps' nest a wallop "
― Benjamin Black
3 " All the same, she wondered if they did know what she thought and felt, if they knew without knowing, in that way the Irish were so adept at doing. "
― Benjamin Black , Vengeance (Quirke, #5)
4 " Love was love, and always demanded more than a lover was capable of giving. "
― Benjamin Black , Holy Orders (Quirke, #6)
5 " suerte de mundo paralelo y regido por una especie humana más formidable y "
6 " You can know something and at the same time not know it. It’s one of the things that help us put up with our lot in life and not go crazy "
― Benjamin Black , The Black-Eyed Blonde
7 " How they wait to ambush us, our true emotions "
― Benjamin Black , Elegy for April (Quirke, #3)
8 " —¿Denunciarle a quién? A lo mejor no se ha enterado usted...; no se denuncia a un cura. El clero es intocable. ¿No se lo ha dicho nadie? —¿Ni siquiera cuando es un cáncer para la comunidad? Radford suspiró. —Lo más que habría conseguido —dijo— habría sido que lo trasladaran. Es lo que hace siempre la Iglesia cuando uno de los suyos se mete en líos. Y habría continuado haciendo lo mismo en otra parte. "
9 " era el símbolo, la imagen misma de la propia Praga, llamativa, siniestra y deforme. "
― Benjamin Black , Wolf on a String
10 " Physically, too, he had faded, his features become indistinct, as if a fine sifting of dust had settled uniformly over him. "
― Benjamin Black , The Silver Swan (Quirke, #2)
11 " Humans build square, Quirke thought, nature in the round. "
12 " el mundo me parecía un lugar de posibilidades, de oportunidades; al igual que él, consideraba el destino no una fuerza fija sino maleable. "
13 " Yo tenía esa edad en la que el menor gesto de bondad parece una prueba de amistad eterna. "
14 " four o’clock the daylight was already curling insidious fingers round the edges of the curtains in his bedroom. He "
15 " So he lay there, desperate as a beetle fallen on its back, trying not to think of all the things he did not want to think of, as the dawn sifted into the room like a radiant gray dust. "
16 " She could see and smell and touch and hear, but somehow she could hardly feel at "
17 " tenía la actitud relajada y tranquila de algunos hombres que viven en paz consigo mismos y con el mundo. "
18 " el mundo es un gran código que debemos descifrar. No me cabe duda de que hay hombres que nacen con el don de ver la esencia de las cosas y que tienen un conocimiento secreto de la verdadera naturaleza de la materia y sus posibilidades. "
19 " ¿Sabéis su definición de un embajador? «Un caballero honrado enviado al extranjero a mentir "
20 " cada cual se labra su propia suerte, o bien otros, por lo general idiotas, la labran por él. "
