Lampedusa had it right—things had to seem to change so that things could remain the same.
He smiled at the brilliance of his perception, and Brunetti, too, smiled, delighted to hear it.
Hostages to fortune.
But all that you will have now, and for the rest of your lives, is loss and pain and the terrible sense that you somehow failed this boy. And no matter how deep your knowledge that you were not respon...
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...
When scores of indicted criminals sit in parliament who could believe in the rule of law...
Italians know about human nature - they understand human nature perhaps better than anyone else does. They know that people are weak and greedy and lazy and dishonest and they just try to make the bes...
Even the worst men wanted to be perceived as better than they were. How else could hypocrisy have risen to such delirious levels?
Belief that heresy was a form of intellectual stubbornness, the refusal to abandon a mistaken idea. In
Am, as an English poet says in an entirely different context, ‘as free as the road, as loose as the wind.’ Brunetti
Well, I don’t believe it any more, none of it: I have no faith and I have no hope.’ Though
That’s probably because they said a lot of other things, as well.
She lengthened her stride, aware at every step of how long she'd been sitting at a desk and how much her body rejoiced in this simple act of walking on the beach in the sun.
Roberta Marieschi
I’m glad I‘m sitting down, Guido. You make my knees go all wobbly.
Italian to the core, he did not for an instant doubt that a man could be passionately devoted to the wife he betrayed with other women.
I've been thinking that of late - she said. - Thinking what? - That the world of Henry James is becoming very small for me.
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...
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...
Dear brothers and sisters in Christ, dear friends and companions: we are here today to say goodbye to our brother Andrea, who to many of us was far more than a friend. He was healer and helper, someon...