Christine Falls Quotes

“When you think of the material God has to work with,” he said, “you have to feel sorry for Him, sometimes.”
― Benjamin Black, Christine Falls

“In the hallway of the house there was the usual smell he could never identify, brownish, exhausted, a breath out of childhood, if childhood was the word for that first decade of misery he had suffered through.”
― Benjamin Black, Christine Falls

“She had that look - scared and sort of paralysed but frantic underneath - that girls got when they could think of only the one thing. It was a look that told him it would be her first time.”
― John Banville, Christine Falls

“suerte de mundo paralelo y regido por una especie humana más formidable y”
― Benjamin Black, El secreto de Christine

“Maggie, la criada,”
― Benjamin Black, El secreto de Christine

“Davy, el camarero, les llevó las copas. Era extraño, reflexionó”
― Benjamin Black, El secreto de Christine

“Conor Carrington,”
― Benjamin Black, El secreto de Christine

“Phoebe.”
― Benjamin Black, El secreto de Christine

“Patología, Wilkins y Sinclair, sus ayudantes, intercambiaron”
― Benjamin Black, El secreto de Christine

“Mal Griffin, Sarah, él mismo a los veinte años, y Delia, su futura esposa,”
― Benjamin Black, El secreto de Christine

“Brenda Ruttledge —dijo Quirke—. Una de las enfermeras.”
― Benjamin Black, El secreto de Christine

“He watched her as she held the door for Maggie to pass through with the soup. Her hair was the color of rain-wet wheat. He had chosen her sister, Delia Crawford; Delia the dark one; Delia who died.”
― Benjamin Black, Christine Falls

“—¿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.”
― Benjamin Black, Pecado

“¿de qué sirven las premoniciones? Casi de tanto como las ideas retrospectivas”
― Benjamin Black, Pecado

“tenía la actitud relajada y tranquila de algunos hombres que viven en paz consigo mismos y con el mundo.”
― Benjamin Black, Pecado

“cada cual se labra su propia suerte, o bien otros, por lo general idiotas, la labran por él.”
― Benjamin Black, Pecado

“occurred to him that he was sick of being Quirke, but knew there was no one else he could be. “I”
― Benjamin Black, Christine Falls

“There’s always somebody,” she said simply.”
― Benjamin Black, Christine Falls

“We all have a duty to try to make the world a better place, Quirke.”
― Benjamin Black, Christine Falls

“before he could stop himself he heard himself say:”
― Benjamin Black, Christine Falls