Quotes from Benjamin Black

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.

Love was love, and always demanded more than a lover was capable of giving.

suerte de mundo paralelo y regido por una especie humana más formidable y

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

How they wait to ambush us, our true emotions

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.

era el símbolo, la imagen misma de la propia Praga, llamativa, siniestra y deforme.

Physically, too, he had faded, his features become indistinct, as if a fine sifting of dust had settled uniformly over him.

Humans build square, Quirke thought, nature in the round.

el mundo me parecía un lugar de posibilidades, de oportunidades; al igual que él, consideraba el destino no una fuerza fija sino maleable.

Yo tenía esa edad en la que el menor gesto de bondad parece una prueba de amistad eterna.

four o'clock the daylight was already curling insidious fingers round the edges of the curtains in his bedroom. He

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.

She could see and smell and touch and hear, but somehow she could hardly feel at

tenía la actitud relajada y tranquila de algunos hombres que viven en paz consigo mismos y con el mundo.

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.

Sabéis su definición de un embajador? «Un caballero honrado enviado al extranjero a mentir

cada cual se labra su propia suerte, o bien otros, por lo general idiotas, la labran por él.

No creo que nadie sea bueno o malo del todo. Somos una mezcla y actuamos de acuerdo a las circunstancias en que nos encontramos.

He preferred his own judgments and, if the truth were told, his own company, too. That was how he had always been, even as a boy, always by himself, stravaging the fields or the back streets of the Midlands town where he was born, looking for something and never knowing what, hoping to chance on something, anything at all, that would interest or amuse him.

Today was slow, so far. The thumb sucker had been in first thing,

We all have a duty to try to make the world a better place, Quirke.

He felt as if he was being patted all over by someone searching for something hidden on his person. He

para comer con el demonio hace falta una cuchara muy larga.