Quotes from Ken Follett

La mejor protección contra el comunismo es la prosperidad. Stalin lo sabe, y por eso no quiere que Alemania salga de la pobreza.

Sa, anch'io gioco un pochino a tennis, e pensavo...» «Se lei gioca a tennis solo un pochino, allora probabilmente non è al mio livello.»

Alison was relieved: she would have hated to see Mary lose her dignity as well as her life. "Follow me," said the sheriff. Mary turned back momentarily and took an ivory crucifix from its hook on the wall over the altar. With the cross pressed to her heavy bosom and the prayer book in her other hand she walked behind the sheriff, and Alison followed.

Are you dating anyone?' 'Sally Dasilva.' 'The actress. I saw a picture of the two of you, arriving at some premiere, but I didn't know if it was serious.' It was not very serious. 'She's in LA, and we both work a lot. But we get a weekend together once in a while.' 'By the

era notorio que los sacerdotes sabían menos que nadie acerca del amor.

The queen did not know what to say about a man whose virtue was that he did not beat his wife. "He was even kind to his ponies," Mrs. Dai added. "I'm sure he was," said the queen, back on familiar ground.

The Ottoman Empire was in decline, held back from modernization by a conservative Muslim priesthood.

had coped perfectly well on his own, of course, but it was very reassuring to have someone in your life who was always ready to fight for you, and he had missed that comforting feeling.

He was nineteen years old, homeless and rootless, with no family and no purpose in life.

Grigori had become good at that, and in consequence had won the loyalty of his platoon.

Men often told a fairy tale in which there was a division of labor in families, the man going out to earn money, the woman looking after home and children. Reality was different.

Boy did not see why two great nations such as England and Germany should go to war over a half-barbaric wasteland such as Poland.

In the grounds of the château was a church said to date from the year 1000, and he went to look at it, but he had never really understood what people saw in old churches.

Whither thou goest I will go, and where thou lodgest I will lodge; thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God; where thou diest . . .'" She stopped, unable to speak for the constriction in her throat; then, after a moment, she swallowed hard and resumed. " 'Where thou diest will I die, and there will I be buried.

He had realized that she was all the joy in his world. If the weather was fine, he wanted to walk in the sunshine with her; if he saw something beautiful, he wanted to show it to her; if he heard something funny, his first thought was to tell her, and see her smile. His work gave him pleasure, especially when he came up with clever solutions to intractable problems; but it was a cold, cerebral satisfaction, and he knew that his life would be a long winter without Caris.

You don't catch people's religions the way you catch their fleas

This was the kind of thing Oswald Mosley and his British Fascists wanted—a country in which the rule of law was replaced by bullying and beating.

An apology is designed to make the offender feel okay so that he can do it again. Don't be sorry." Kincaid tried to gather the shreds

La resistencia pacífica es nuestra única esperanza.

It was stupid, but people needed someone to hate, and the newspapers were always ready to supply that need. Maud knew the proprietor of the Mail, Lord Northcliffe. Like all great press men, he really believed the drivel he published. His talent was to express his readers' most stupid and ignorant prejudices as if they made sense, so that the shameful seemed respectable. That was why they bought the paper.

If you want to change the world, then foreign relations is the field in which you can do the most good – or evil.

Jesus is always with you, even down the pit." At the time he had thought she was just telling him to behave well. But she had been wiser than that. Of course Jesus was with him. Jesus was everywhere. The darkness did not matter, nor the passage of time.

The war in Continental Europe appeared to be over. Germany had won. Europe was Fascist from Poland to Sicily and from Hungary to Portugal. There was no fighting anywhere. Rumors said the British government had discussed peace terms.

His mind was like a house he had spent his life furnishing.