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  1. Rumer Godden _ In This House of Brede

    The human heartIs unknowable.But in my birthplaceThe flowers still smellThe same as always.
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  2. Rumer Godden _ In This House of Brede

    My nation, as all nations, is becoming a land without peace, without thought, without mind, Madam Abbess. We are suffocating our spirits in commercial and material things. This is not envy," said Mr. Konishi earnestly. "I am a rich man, with much business, so I have succeeded in all these things, but I know that they are empty.
    book-quotefictionhistorical-fictionmonasticism

  3. Robert Harris _ An Officer and a Spy

    ...it has always been my temperament to prefer a tiny amount of the excellent to a plenitude of the mediocre...
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  4. John Williams _ Augustus

    Mankind in the aggregate I have found to be brutish, ignorant and unkind, whether those qualities were covered by the coarse tunic of the peasant of the white and purple toga of a senator. And yet in the weakest of men, in moments when they are alone and themselves, I have found veins of strength like gold in decaying rock; in the cruelest of men, flashes of tenderness and compassion; and in the vainest of men, moments of simplicity and grace.
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  5. Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez _ One Hundred Years of Solitude

    Bad luck doesn't have any chinks in it. I was born a son of a bitch and I'm going to die a son of a bitch. - Captain Roque Carnicero"
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  6. Dorothy Dunnett _ The Disorderly Knights

    At the edge of the still, dark pool that was the sea, at the brimming edge of freedom where no boat was to be seen, she spoke the first words of the few they were to exchange. 'I cannot swim. You know it?" In the dark she saw the flash of his smile. 'Trust me.' And he drew her with a strong hand until the green phosphorescence beaded her ankles, and deeper, and deeper, until the thick milk-warm water, almost unfelt, was up to her waist. She heard him swear feelingly to himself as the salt water searched out, discovered his burns. Then with a rustle she saw his pale head sink back into the quiet sea and at the same moment she was gripped and drawn after him, her face to the stars, drawn through the tides with the sea lapping like her lost hair at her cheeks, the drive of his body beneath her pulling them both from the shore. They were launched on the long journey towards the slim shape, black against glossy black, which was the brigantine, with Thompson on board.
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  7. Hilary Mantel _ Giving Up the Ghost: A Memoir

    I said to my mother, Henry VII is interesting. No he's not, my mother said.
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  8. Hilary Mantel _ Wolf Hall

    In the forest you may find yourself lost, without companions. You may come to a river which is not on a map. You may lose sight of your quarry, and forget why you are there. You may meet a dwarf, or the living Christ, or an old enemy of yours; or a new enemy, one you do not know until you see his face appear between the rustling leaves, and see the glint of his dagger. You may find a woman asleep in a bower of leaves. For a moment, before you don't recognise her, you will think she is someone you know."
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  9. Penelope Fitzgerald _ The Blue Flower

    Llevar una oficina no es tan difícil, le dijo Just. Básicamente consiste en saber, en primer lugar, que entra; en segundo lugar, qué queda pendiente; en tercer lugar, qué asuntos han sido gestionados y están listos para salir; y en cuarto lugar, qué es lo que ya ha salido. Todos los asuntos deben encontrarse en una de estas cuatro etapas, y de este modo no se puede poner la excusa de que se ha traspapelado algún documento. Para cada transacción debe haber un registro, y de ese registro tienes que poder obtener inmediatamente una copia escrita. El mundo civilizado no podria existir sin su cohorte de escribientes, y estos a su vez no podrían existir si la civilización no requiriese tanto papeleo. - Yo no resistiria la vida si tuviera que que trabajar de escribiente, le dijo Fritz. - No debería existir ese tipo de trabajo. - Ni una revolución acabaría con él, le dijo Coelestin Just. - Habría escribientes al pie de la guillotina.
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  10. Penelope Fitzgerald _ The Blue Flower

    En ese momento se dio la vuelta, como movida por una ráfaga de viento.
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  11. Diana Gabaldon _ Outlander

    But just then, for that fraction of time, it seems as though all things are possible. You can look across the limitations of your own life, and see that they are really nothing. In that moment when time stops, it is as though you know you could undertake any venture, complete it and come back to yourself, to find the world unchanged, and everything just as you left it a moment before. And it's as though knowing that everything is possible, suddenly nothing is necessary.
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  12. Diana Gabaldon _ Dragonfly in Amber

    I stood still, vision blurring, and in that moment, I heard my heart break. It was a small, clean sound, like the snapping of a flower's stem."
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