The Seville Communion Quotes

“Always that damned discipline that you wear like chain mail ... You would have got on well with Bernard de Clairvaux and his gang of Knights Templar. If you'd been captured by Saladin, I'm sure you'd rather have had your throat cut than renounce your faith. But not from devotion, from pride.”
― Arturo Pérez-Reverte, The Seville Communion: A Novel

“Después de todo, qué sería de nosotros sin nosotros mismos, pensaba. La vida es un naufragio, y cada uno echa a nadar como puede.”
― Arturo Pérez-Reverte, The Seville Communion

“Estoy convencida de que cada edificio, cada cuadro, cada libro antiguo que se destruye o se pierde, nos hace un poco más huérfanos. Nos empobrece.”
― Arturo Pérez-Reverte, The Seville Communion

“There had been three priests, proponents of so-called liberation theology. They had opposed the reactionary tide from Rome. And in all three cases the IEA had done the dirty work for Iwaszkiewicz and his Congregation. Corona, Ortega, and Souza were prominent progressive priests working in marginal dioceses, poor districts of Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paolo. They believed in saving man here on earth, not waiting for the Kingdom of Heaven.”
― Arturo Pérez-Reverte, The Seville Communion: A Novel

“la Santa Madre Iglesia —dijo por fin, sin volverse—. Tan católica, apostólica y romana que ha terminado traicionando su mensaje original. Con la Reforma perdió la mitad de Europa, y en el siglo XVIII excomulgó a la Razón. Cien años más tarde perdió a los trabajadores, que comprendieron que estaba del lado de los amos y los opresores. En este siglo que termina está perdiendo a la juventud y a las mujeres.”
― Arturo Pérez-Reverte, La piel del tambor

“era preciso y fiable como una navaja suiza.”
― Arturo Pérez-Reverte, La piel del tambor

“Now you've seen a hero," he said. "And that's worth something." —Eckermann, CONVERSATIONS WITH GOETHE”
― Arturo Pérez-Reverte, The Seville Communion: A Novel