Jean-Luc Bannalec > Quotes

“Una mar en calma nunca hizo buen marinero.   Dicho bretón”
― Jean-Luc Bannalec, El misterio de Pont-Aven

“Himmlische Dämpfe erfüllten den Raum. »Wussten Sie, dass sich das Kaffeearoma aus rund tausend verschiedenen Einzelaromen zusammensetzt? Wein bringt es gerade einmal auf vierhundert.« Dupin hatte es nicht gewusst oder, genauer: Er hatte es immer schon gewusst. Schließlich war er aus gutem Grund süchtig.”
― Jean-Luc Bannalec, Bretonische Idylle

“Al reconstruir los hechos, el caso se convertía en un fantasma. Se disipaba como realidad, se descomponía en distintas historias subjetivas que cuanto más se contaban, cuanto más se hablaba de ellas y más «perduraban», menos tenían en común.”
― Jean-Luc Bannalec, Un crimen bretón

“Relationships between the people are close and numerous here. Everyone knows everyone, they’re friends, or related, and people pursue many different interests. That’s how it is.” The description could just as easily apply to the Camorra mafia.”
― Jean-Luc Bannalec, An Island of Suspects: A Brittany Mystery

“Tigresse de Bretagne’ – Jeanne de Belleville,”
― Jean-Luc Bannalec, Murder on Brittany Shores

“The sheep grazed on salty, iodine-rich meadows, full of wild herbs, directly by the ocean. “They season themselves while they’re eating,” as a Breton had once told him.”
― Jean-Luc Bannalec, An Island of Suspects: A Brittany Mystery

“get to know someone, you need to go through seven sacks of salt together. —BRETON SAYING”
― Jean-Luc Bannalec, The Fleur de Sel Murders

“Whisky belongs to us Celts like the sun does to life,”
― Jean-Luc Bannalec, An Island of Suspects: A Brittany Mystery

“the unique, immutable scent of the forest in the air, a heavy, ethereal smell which the summer couldn’t dissolve.”
― Jean-Luc Bannalec, The King Arthur Case: A Brittany Mystery

“You have a sensitivity to the world of signs. And that’s the Breton people’s way, they move through the world as though it were an enchanted forest. Behind everything and everyone there lies a hidden meaning, a secret. Charles Le Goffic says ‘the visible world is nothing more than a web of symbols to a Breton.’ And never forget: nothing is more real than what you can’t see!”
― Jean-Luc Bannalec, The Fleur de Sel Murders

“Neb a fell dezhañ ober fall, A gav un digarez pe un all. Those who want to do ill,
will always find an excuse —BRETON SAYING”
― Jean-Luc Bannalec, An Island of Suspects: A Brittany Mystery

“humanity only ever lives on islands. We’re island creatures. Over two-thirds of the surface of our planet is water, and even the largest continent is, in truth, just an island.”
― Jean-Luc Bannalec, An Island of Suspects: A Brittany Mystery

“If extraordinary incidents occurred, no matter if they were good, bad, funny, or even baffling, then several happened in a row. They didn’t like to be alone.”
― Jean-Luc Bannalec, The Missing Corpse: A Brittany Mystery

“Hay personas que te hacen feliz cuando llegan, y otras que te hacen feliz cuando se van. Dicho”
― Jean-Luc Bannalec, Un cadáver en Port du Bélon

“Goulou is Celtic, it means ‘light.’ George Bernard Shaw called whisky ‘liquid sunlight.”
― Jean-Luc Bannalec, An Island of Suspects: A Brittany Mystery