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Book: The Queen of the South
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Arturo Pérez-Reverte _ The Queen of the South
Books are doors that lead out into the street," Patricia would tell her. "You learn from them, educate yourself, travel, dream, imagine, live other lives, multiply your own life a thousand times. Where can you get more for your money, Mexicanita? And they also keep all sorts of bad things at bay: ghosts, loneliness, shit like that.
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Arturo Pérez-Reverte _ The Queen of the South
... porque no se trata sólo de leer libros sino el placer físico y el consuelo interior que da tenerlos en las manos"
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Arturo Pérez-Reverte _ The Queen of the South
Y es que, en cuestión de mujeres, a veces oyes canto de sirena y te sale loba de mar.
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Arturo Pérez-Reverte _ The Queen of the South
Fucking incredible! Four miles in five minutes, with a slight maneuver to avoid an oil barge anchored halfway in. And when the HJ peeled away and abandoned the pursuit and the helicopter began to fall back and gain altitude, Teresa stood up in the middle of the speedboat and, still illuminated by the spotlight, lifted a triumphant single finger. Adiós Cabróooon.
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Arturo Pérez-Reverte _ The Queen of the South
You make a pact with life and death: so many years as a king, and then...Say what you will, dirty money spends as green as clean.
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Arturo Pérez-Reverte _ The Queen of the South
The sea was cruel and selfish as human beings, and in its monstrous simplicity had no notion of complexities like pity, wounding, or remorse... You could see yourself in it... while the wind, the light, the swaying, the sound of the water on the hull worked the miracle of distancing, calming you until you didn't hurt anymore, erasing any pity, any wound, and any remorse.
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Arturo Pérez-Reverte _ The Queen of the South
Había aprendido que lo malo no era la espera, sino las cosas que imaginas mientras esperas".
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Arturo Pérez-Reverte _ The Queen of the South
She had discovered with surprise and pleasure that as she turned each page, the book was written, as if for the first time, all over again.
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Arturo Pérez-Reverte _ The Queen of the South
-Nos hacemos fotos, no con el objeto de recordar, sino para completarlas después con el resto de nuestras vidas. Por eso hay fotos que aciertan y fotos que no. Imágenes que el tiempo pone en su lugar, atribuyendo a unas su auténtico significado, y negando otras que se apagan solas, igual que si los colores se borraran con el tiempo.
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Arturo Pérez-Reverte _ The Queen of the South
No fear is unbearable, she concluded, unless you've got time on your hands and a healthy imagination.
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Arturo Pérez-Reverte _ The Queen of the South
Los libros son puertas que te llevan a la calle, decía Patricia. Con ellos aprendes, te educas, viajas, sueñas, imaginas, vives otras vidas y multiplicas la tuya por mil."
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Arturo Pérez-Reverte _ The Queen of the South
What about the future?""We'll talk about the future when it gets here.
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