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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 " suerte de mundo paralelo y regido por una especie humana más formidable y "
3 " —¿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. "
4 " tenía la actitud relajada y tranquila de algunos hombres que viven en paz consigo mismos y con el mundo. "
5 " cada cual se labra su propia suerte, o bien otros, por lo general idiotas, la labran por él. "
6 " We all have a duty to try to make the world a better place, Quirke. "
7 " There’s always somebody,” she said simply. "
8 " He watched her as she held the door for Maggie to pass through with the soup. Her hair was the color of rain-wet wheat. He had chosen her sister, Delia Crawford; Delia the dark one; Delia who died. "
9 " In the hallway of the house there was the usual smell he could never identify, brownish, exhausted, a breath out of childhood, if childhood was the word for that first decade of misery he had suffered through. "
10 " ¿de qué sirven las premoniciones? Casi de tanto como las ideas retrospectivas "
11 " before he could stop himself he heard himself say: "
12 " Brenda Ruttledge —dijo Quirke—. Una de las enfermeras. "
13 " Mal Griffin, Sarah, él mismo a los veinte años, y Delia, su futura esposa, "
14 " Patología, Wilkins y Sinclair, sus ayudantes, intercambiaron "
15 " Phoebe. "
16 " Conor Carrington, "
17 " Davy, el camarero, les llevó las copas. Era extraño, reflexionó "
18 " Maggie, la criada, "
19 " When you think of the material God has to work with,” he said, “you have to feel sorry for Him, sometimes. "
20 " occurred to him that he was sick of being Quirke, but knew there was no one else he could be. “I "
