Women don’t use knives,’ Griffoni answered, reciting it as though she were Euclid listing another axiom. Although he agreed with her, Brunetti was curious about the basis for her belief. ‘You offering...
Though he did not believe, he was not untouched by the magic of belief ...
Lampedusa had it right—things had to seem to change so that things could remain the same.
Intellectuals?’ Brunetti repeated. ‘I think it’s more true to say they’re the cartographers of the Flat Earth Society
Ella sonrió por primera vez y, de repente, su cara dejó de ser vulgar.
Don't you have any desire for vengeance? he asked before he remembered that she wasn't Italian.
Knew, yet his behaviour had suggested that his information was of
We work in a profession that has consequences for the heart,
He smiled at the brilliance of his perception, and Brunetti, too, smiled, delighted to hear it.
He dealt every day with people who believed they weren’t happy and who further believed that by committing some crime—theft, murder, deceit, blackmail, even kidnapping—they would find the magic elixir...
I do not take any pleasure whatsoever in being a famous person.
Momento mori,
Hostages to fortune.
Even the worst men wanted to be perceived as better than they were. How else could hypocrisy have risen to such delirious levels?
Am, as an English poet says in an entirely different context, ‘as free as the road, as loose as the wind.’ Brunetti
Then we must consider what an African would want to do with the money to
I remember that’s the way he was before we came out here. But then it was as if we’d come to a magic country where people changed into the person you wanted them to be, and all of a sudden my father b...
I guess God can be whatever God wants to be. Maybe God's so great that even our little rules about material reality and our tiny little universe don't mean anything to God. You ever think of that?
Hic scientia finit: Knowledge Stops Here.
Exactly what I said: she’s still a child in many ways, so she’s discovering all the fine and noble causes for the first time, and she still sees each one as a discrete unit: she hasn’t seen the connec...