“When we are children, when we are young, it is natural to love our friends, to be generous to them, to forgive their faults.. But as we grow old and have to earn our bread, friendship does not endure so easily. We must always be on our guard. Our elders no longer look after us, we are no longer content with those simple pleasures of children. Pride grows in us – we wish to become great or powerful or rich, or simply to guard ourself against misfortune.”
“...what is written on paper affects history. But not life. Life is a different history.”
“My dear Guiliano," he said, "how is it that you and Don Croce do not join together to rule Sicily? He has the wisdom of age, you have the idealism of youth.”
“A man’s first duty is to keep himself alive. Then comes what everyone calls honor.”
“Preparing the communal evening meal sometimes caused arguments. Every village in Sicily had a different recipe for squid and eels, disagreed on what herbs should be disbarred from the tomato sauce. And whether sausages should ever be baked.”
“Tell the truth, all Sicilians prefer smelling the shit of their villages to the best perfumes in Paris. What am I doing here? I could have escaped to Brazil like some others. Ah, we love where we are born, we Sicilians, but Sicily does not love us.”
“Michael looked around the beautiful garden with its many colored flowers, fragrant lemon trees, the old statures of the gods dug from ancient ruins, other newer ones of holy saints, the rose-colored walls across the villa. It was a lovely setting for the examination of twelve murderous apostles.”
“As bread is sweet to us,” he said, “so is the blood of the poor to the rich who drink it.” It”
“The man who plays alone never loses.’ ” Guiliano”
“A belief in one's own virtue is far more dangerous than a belief in one's cunning.”
“وما معنى الوجود إذن؟"
" قلت لإني لا أدري، كل ما أقولهـ هو إن الكون ليس خاليت من المعنى. إن تطور الحياة عملية مذهلة إلى درجة أن أغرب وأتم وأحدث أساطير الخلق لا تحيط بوصفها"
" أنت غريب، غريب جدا”
“Let me go.”
“No.” He pulled her closer. “Never.”
“Sometimes I get so caught up in my own drama, I forget I'm not the only one in the play.”
“The worst part, he realized as he destroyed first one vampire, and then another, was that he didn’t care. He welcomed it, embraced it, and relished in the death around him as it briefly calmed his tormented spirit.”
“What price did William pay for your life, for your loyalty sworn by oath? Could I purchase it from him?"
-Aislinn”
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