Quotes from Ken Follett

Some people appealed to the Virgin and the saints when someone was sick, but that only made Caris more uncertain and frightened, for there was no way to know if the spirits would help, or even whether they had heard. Mother Cecelia was not as powerful as the saints, the ten-year-old Caris had known; but all the same her assured, practical presence had given Caris both hope and resignation in a combination that brought peace to her soul.

El flanco de un ejército era más vulnerable que su cabecera.

The counting in Los Angeles was slow. Every unopened box was guarded by armed Democrats, who believed that tampering had robbed them of a presidential victory in 1876.

How glibly he and Maud had said, back in August 1914, that they would be reunited by Christmas! It was now more than two years since he had looked at her lovely face. And it was probably going to take Germany another two years to win the war.

I'm glad to see that the crusading spirit of your forebears hasn't been entirely obliterated by rock and roll.

Contigo, la necesitaba —dijo Sonja.

No se le había pasado por la cabeza que acusar a las agencias gubernamentales de actos ilegales era en sí un acto ilegal? ¿Imaginaba que estaba viviendo en una democracia liberal degenerada?

They had all glossed over what was wrong and declined to acknowledge reality.

El primer asunto que debían tratar cuando se iniciara la sesión esa tarde era la Ley de Habilitación, que permitiría que el gabinete de Hitler pudiera aprobar leyes sin el permiso del Reichstag.

What kind of message did that

following year.

meeting. "This nonsense must be stopped!" he said.

After a while, two teenage boys served a meal of stew with bread. Abdul thought the boys had probably done the cooking themselves. He suspected that the chewy meat was camel, but he did not ask. Afterward the boys cleaned up in a perfunctory way, leaving scraps on the ground. Men without women were slobs everywhere, Abdul thought.

He slipped his hand inside her coat and touched her through the soft linen of her dress. Her body was warm. He held her breast in his palm, small and round. He loved the way her flesh yielded to the press of his fingertips. He had never seen her naked, but he knew her breasts intimately. In his dreams they went farther.

dismay Preece recovered yet again, rather suddenly, and

Cómo debo vivir?». La respuesta de Tolstói era: «Tú conoces en tu corazón lo que es recto».

Los seres humanos tenemos la capacidad de sobreponernos a las circunstancias cotidianas y acercarnos a lo eterno.

Elizabeth's true attitude was probably that of someone who hears two drunks fighting in the street at night: it did not matter who won so long as neither tried to get into the house.

Vivimos en una tiranía brutal [… ] Tenemos que hacer algo para mantener viva la esperanza.

his naval namesake. He spoke German as a

Cómo se pueden obtener soluciones si a nadie se le permite hablar de los problemas?

John Locke and other philosophers said a government's authority could come only from the consent of the people.

Their violence, plus the southward creep of the Sahara Desert, were driving people like Kiah to risk their lives crossing the Mediterranean in inflatable dinghies.

quick to comfort and advise, slow to command or punish.