14 quotes found
“Recently abandoned women can be complicated.”
“To you, perceptive reader, I bequeath my history.”
“It touched me to be trusted with something terrible.”
“You are a total stranger and you want to take my library book.”
“It was good to walk into a library again it smelled like home.”
“When you handle books all day long, every new one is a friend and a temptation.”
“Ao sairmos para o anoitecer dourado das ruas bizantinas, refleti como era estranho que, mesmo sob as circunstncias mais extraordinrias, durante episdios mais perturbadores da vida, nos lugares mais...”
“Never before had I known the sudden quiver of understanding that travels from word to brain to heart, the way a new language can move, coil, swim into life under the eyes, the almost savage leap of...”
“It was strange, I reflected.. that even in the weirdest circumstances, the most troubling episodes of one's life, the greatest divides from home and familiarity, there were these moments of undenia...”
“As a historian, I have learned that, in fact, not everyone who reaches back into history can survive it. And it is not only reaching back that endangers us; sometimes history itself reaches inexora...”
“It was not the brutality of what occurred next that changed my mind and brought home to me the full meaning of fear. It was the brilliance of it.”
“... I grant you that anyone who pokes around in history long enough may well go mad.”
“If there is any good in life, in history, in my own past, I invoke it now. I invoke it with all the passion with which I have lived.”
“As you know, human history is full of evil deeds, and maybe we ought to think of them with tears, not fascination.”
