Don't you have any desire for vengeance? he asked before he remembered that she wasn't Italian.
As if sensing his attention, Paola turned her head towards him and allowed her eyes to close and then open slowly, as though she’d been told that the Crucifixion had only just begun and there still re...
You really love to gossip, don't you? he asked, wishing she had brought him a glass of wine.Yes, I suppose I do, she answered, sounding surprised at the realization. You think that's why I love readin...
Only the good deserve to hope.
Once, walking with him, Paola had stopped and asked him what he was thinking about, and the fact that she was the only person in the world he would not be embarrassed to tell just what it was he had b...
Intellectuals?’ Brunetti repeated. ‘I think it’s more true to say they’re the cartographers of the Flat Earth Society
His eyes were all policeman.
Hic scientia finit: Knowledge Stops Here.
He hesitated then, anticipating the panic that came when there was nothing left to read.- Guido Brunetti
Brunetti’s best friend had often said that he wanted death to take him just at the moment he laid his last lira down on a bar and said, ‘Prosecco for everyone.
We are a nation of egoists. It is our glory, but it will be our destruction, for none of us can be made to concern ourselves about something as abstract as the common good. The best of us can rise to...
That first time, we talked about the servant, who had influenza, but when I came back, we somehow started to talk about Greek poetry. And that led to a discussion, if I remember correctly, of Greek an...
Ella sonrió por primera vez y, de repente, su cara dejó de ser vulgar.
And the sight
I do not take any pleasure whatsoever in being a famous person.
Momento mori,
Locked his fingers on the arm of his
Though he did not believe, he was not untouched by the magic of belief ...
Then we must consider what an African would want to do with the money to
When children loved you, you knew everything, and when they were angry with you, you knew nothing?