Posted by: V. Pecherskaya
'What is this thing? What is it we've seen?' asked Ismael.
Lazarus looked at him intently.
'It's me... That thing you've seen is me...' [continue to read »]
from the book "" by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
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Posted by: V. Pecherskaya
She gazed at the undersea fauna until she had to come up for air.
'Keep doing that and you'll grow a tail, like a mermaid,' said Ismael.
She winked at him, then kissed him in the dim light.
'Perhaps I already am a mermaid,' she whispered, swimming further inside the cave. [continue to read »]
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Posted by: V. Pecherskaya
in Novels (Sentimental)
Fermìn looked at me in tears and she embraced me so hard that I believed that she would have asphyxiated me. I'm not ashamed to admit that was one of the happiest moments of my life. [continue to read »]
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Posted by: V. Pecherskaya
We spent the rest of the journey in silence. When I got home I went straight up to the flat, took a long hot shower and swallowed four aspirins. Then I lowered the blinds and, hugging a pillow that smelled of Bea, fell asleep like the idiot I was, wondering where she was - that woman for whom I... [continue to read »]
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Posted by: V. Pecherskaya
Valls slapped him so hard he knocked him over. Two guards had turned up in the corridor, waiting for instructions from the governor.
'I want him alive,' he told them.
The two guards nodded and left at a brisk pace. Valls stayed there, leaning against the bars of the cell shared by Martín and Dr... [continue to read »]
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Posted by: Luisa Maietta
Clever people, the Swiss. Clocks and chocolates: the essential things in life! [continue to read »]
from the book "" by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
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Slowly as a castle of papers the world around collapsed. [continue to read »]
from the book "" by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Posted by: V. Pecherskaya
in Novels (Short stories)
One night I decided to follow him and put an end to the charade.
'I trailed him to the old workshop of Velo-Granell Industries, next to the Borne Market. Mijail had gone there alone. I had to creep in through a tiny window in an alleyway. The inside of the factory looked to me like the scene of... [continue to read »]
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Posted by: V. Pecherskaya
Mijail had the loveliest smile I have ever known. When he smiled, you could believe anything that came from his lips. Someone once said - and he was right - that Mijail could have convinced Christopher Columbus that the world was as flat as a pancake. [continue to read »]
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