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Ancient Light (The Cleave Trilogy #3) QUOTES

Ancient Light (The Cleave Trilogy #3) QUOTES

1 " The dead are my dark matter, filling up impalpably the empty spaces of the world. "

― John Banville , Ancient Light (The Cleave Trilogy #3)

2 " When I look back all is flux, without beginning and flowing towards no end, or none that I shall experience, except as a final full stop. The items of flotsam that I choose to salvage from the general wreckage—and what is a life but a gradual shipwreck?—may take on an aspect of inevitability when I put them on display in their glass showcases, but they are random; representative, perhaps, perhaps compellingly so, but random nonetheless. "

― John Banville , Ancient Light (The Cleave Trilogy #3)

3 " I guard my memories of my lost one jealously, keep them securely under wraps, like a folio of delicate watercolours that must be protected from the harsh light of day. "

― John Banville , Ancient Light (The Cleave Trilogy #3)

4 " These things that were between us, these and a myriad others, a myriad myriad, these remain of her, but what will become of them when I am gone, I who am their repository and sole preserver? "

― John Banville , Ancient Light (The Cleave Trilogy #3)

5 " ¿Recordáis cómo era abril cuando éramos jóvenes, esa sensación de líquida impetuosidad y el viento extrayendo cucharadas azules del aire y los pájaros fuera de sí en los árboles que ya habían echado brotes? "

― John Banville , Ancient Light (The Cleave Trilogy #3)

6 " Yes, another April; in a way, in this story, it is always April. "

― John Banville , Ancient Light (The Cleave Trilogy #3)

7 " Imágenes del pasado remoto se agolpan en mi cabeza, y la mitad de las veces soy incapaz de distinguir si son recuerdos o invenciones. Tampoco es que haya mucha diferencia, si es que hay alguna. Hay quien afirma que, sin darnos cuenta, nos lo vamos inventando todo, adornándolo y embelleciéndolo, y me inclino a creerlo, pues Madame Memoria es una gran y sutil fingidora. Los pecios que elijo salvar del naufragio general —¿y qué es la vida, sino un naufragio gradual?— a veces asumen un aspecto de inevitabilidad cuando los exhibo en sus vitrinas, pero son azarosos; quizá representativos, quizá de manera convincente, pero sin embargo azarosos. "

― John Banville , Ancient Light (The Cleave Trilogy #3)

8 " Remember what April was like when we were young, that sense of liquid rushing and the wind taking blue scoops out of the air and the birds beside themselves in the budding trees? "

― John Banville , Ancient Light (The Cleave Trilogy #3)

9 " Sleep is uncanny, I have always found it so, a nightly dress-rehearsal for being dead. "

― John Banville , Ancient Light (The Cleave Trilogy #3)

10 " Yet even without saying, each knew what the other was thinking, and, more acutely, what the other was feeling -- this is a further effect of our shared sorrow, this empathy, this mournful telepathy. "

― John Banville , Ancient Light (The Cleave Trilogy #3)

11 " Whom now would I love, and who would love me? "

― John Banville , Ancient Light (The Cleave Trilogy #3)

12 " What did I brood on, sitting there in the classic pose with my elbows on my knees and my chin on my hands? We do not need to go to the Greeks, our tragic predicament is written out on rolls of lavatory paper. "

― John Banville , Ancient Light (The Cleave Trilogy #3)

13 " of her blood. Oh, I do not say these are "

― John Banville , Ancient Light (The Cleave Trilogy #3)

14 " … убеждението, което ние всички храним на тази възраст, че семействата на нашите приятели са много симпатични, по-приятни и интересни – с една дума, по-желани, – отколкото нашите собствени? "

― John Banville , Ancient Light (The Cleave Trilogy #3)