Quotes from Ken Follett

I don't stoop to criticize you. I despise you. - Samuel Pilaster

Solo te pido una cosa —insistió—, no puedes perder la esperanza.

The ability to listen to smart people who disagree with you is a rare talent –

Don't you know that if you deny the truth about yourself you lose your soul?

The strange thing is that everyone knows the answer. We need to decentralize decisions, introduce limited markets, and legitimize the semi-illegal gray economy so that it can grow.

Carla no creía en Dios —ninguna entidad sagrada digna de tal nombre habría permitido que llegaran a existir los campos de exterminio nazis—

Puedo hacer frente a cualquier cosa siempre que te tenga a mi lado.

America is ruled by laws, not mobs!

El general rebelde, Franco, había conseguido el respaldo de la Iglesia católica.

The types who planned an insurrection against Roosevelt in the thirties

capacidad de escuchar a gente inteligente que no está de acuerdo contigo es un talento difícil de encontrar…

serviced this

El único pecado es el orgullo.»

Cuando esté a punto de recibir una negativa, he de conseguir un aplazamiento.

the most striking thing was how smart she looked. She wore

prométeme que nunca te rendirás. Nunca.

One man could manage an empty barrel but it took two to move a full one over uneven ground. The two brothers took the empty to the alehouse, with Brindle trotting behind. While they were paying Leaf, two passengers arrived for the ferry. Edgar recognized them as Odo and Adelaide, a husband-and-wife courier team from Cherbourg. They had passed through Dreng's Ferry two weeks earlier on their way to Shiring, accompanied by two men-at-arms, carrying letters and money to Ragna. Edgar

You're going to be fearfully unhappy,' he said. He was trying to be nasty to her, but the attempt was a failure, for she could hear compassion in his voice. 'Yes, I am,' she said. 'Would you at least . . . at least say you respect me for my decision?' 'No,' he said without hesitation. 'I don't. I despise you for it.

So I should protect him?' 'As you would a mad dog that mauls intruders.

quienes le trataban de forma hostil lo hacían debido a su propia debilidad.

daremos clases y nos querremos.

So I should protect him? As you would a mad dog that mauls intruders.

Lizzie found his equanimity incredible. What kind of people were these miners? Though their lives were brutally hard their spirits seemed unquenchable. By comparison her own life seemed pampered and purposeless.

Therefore I shall resign the presidency effective at noon tomorrow. Vice President Ford will be sworn in as president at that hour in this office." "Yes!" George punched the air. "He's done it! He's gone!" What Maria felt was not so much triumph as relief. She had woken up from a nightmare. In the dream, the highest officers in the land had been crooks, and no one could do anything to stop them.