Quotes from Piers Paul Read

Good novels are not written, they are rewritten. Great novels are diamonds mined from layered rewrites.

Oh, God," he prayed once again, "by all means test us to the limit of our endurance, but please make it humanly possible to go on. Please let there be some sort of path".

There was one question, however, which Inciarte had asked him and he could not answer. Why was it that he had lived while others had died? What purpose had God in making this selection? What sense could be made out of it? 'None,' replied Father Andrés. 'There are times when the will of God cannot be understood by our human intelligence. There are things which in all humility we must accept as a mystery.

It's like Holy Communion. When Christ died he gave his body to us so that we could have spiritual life. My friend has given us his body so that we can have physical life.

Oh, God," he prayed once again, by all means test us to the limit of our endurance, but please make it humanly possible to go on. Please let there be some sort of path".

I prayed to God from the bottom of my heart that this day would never come, but it has and we have to face it with courage and faith.

He did not think of God nor of his family but remarked to himself, 'Okay, I'm dying.

To Pedro, God was the love which existed between two human beings, or a group of human beings. Thus love was all important.

He turned his head and saw a daisy growing by his nose. He picked it, sniffed it, and then handed it to Carlitos, who lay beside him. Carlitos took it from him and was about to smell it too, but instead he crammed it into his mouth and ate it.

Compartían el interés por los coches y las chicas, razón por la que se habían ganado su reputación de playboys

Niekas taip neskatina žmogaus veikti, kaip troškimas nustebinti tuos, kurie juo abejoja.

?statymai, - kart? pasak? jis Džonui, - n?ra Dievo duoti, bet žmogaus sugalvoti. Pasiži?r?k gerai ? žmones, kurie juos kuria, ir pagalvok, kokiems tikslams jie tarnauja - juk dažniausiai apginti nuosavyb? t?, kurie j? turi, nuo t?, kurie jos neturi.

It is meat,' he said. 'That's all it is. The souls have left their bodies and are in heaven with God. All that is left here are the carcasses, which are no more human beings than the dead flesh of the cattle we eat at home.

Los asesinos de Siria son tanto los descendientes de los sicarios judíos como los antepasados de los terroristas suicidas del Hezbollah.

había muy pocas posibilidades de encontrarlo, y todavía menos de que alguno de los cuarenta y cinco pasajeros y tripulantes hubieran sobrevivido a la catástrofe.

Hasta ese momento habían cocinado la carne o la habían secado al sol, pero ahora no quedaba otra alternativa que comérsela húmeda y cruda a medida que la iban cortando, y como tenían tanta hambre, muchos comieron grandes pedazos que tuvieron que masticar y saborear. Para