Arturo Pérez-Reverte Quotes

“You don't choose your friends, they choose you, and you either reject them or you accept them without reservations.”

“Actually loneliness has a kind of fascination; it's a state of egotistical, inner grace that you can achieve only by standing guard on old, forgotten roads that no one travels anymore.”

“One is never alone with a book nearby, don't you agree? Every page reminds us of a day that has passed and makes us relive the emotions that filled it. Happy hours underlined in red pencil, dark ones in black…”

“Chess is all about getting the king into check, you see. It's about killing the father. I would say that chess has more to do with the art of murder than it does with the art of war.”

“Everyone gets the devil he deserves.”

“I once wrestled with an angel. He won, but I learned a few things.”

“Because God and the devil could be one and the same thing, and everybody understood it in his own way.”