Halt Quotes - Page 4

• I swam across the rocks and compared myself favorably with the sars. To swim fishlike, horizontally, was the logical method in a medium eight hundred times denser than air. To halt and hang attached to nothing, no lines or air pipe to the surface, was a dream. At night I had often had visions of flying by extending my arms as wings. Now I flew without wings. (Since that first aqualung flight, I have never had a dream of flying.)

  Jacques Yves Cousteau

  Dream, Night, Eight

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• Lanzo mi corazón para detener su paso.

  Sylvia Plath

  Heart, Pace, My Heart

  Sylvia Plath (2011). “Letters Home”, p.337, Faber & Faber

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• Tal vez con el tiempo, Ella, las palabras que hemos perdido se desvanezcan, y todos dejemos de invocarlas por costumbre, sólo para estamparlas como hongos indeseados cuando aparecen. Tal vez acaben desapareciendo del todo, y también los titubeos y tartamudeos que las acompañan: esas molestas y enloquecedoras pausas que en la actualidad invaden y puntúan mediante la cesura todo tipo de discurso. Todos nos esforzamos desesperadamente por ser cuidadosos.

  Mark Dunn

  Trying, Toadstools, Habit

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• Isn't that someone we know?" asked Horace. He pointed to where a cloaked figure sat by the side of the road a few hundred meters away, arms wrapped around his knees. Close by him, a small shaggy horse cropped the grass growing at the edge of the drainage ditch that ran beside the road. "So it is," Halt replied. "And he seems to have brought Will with him.

  John Flanagan

  Horse, Growing, Arms

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• Parece que ha perdido una guinea y ha encontrado un cuarto de penique", dijo Horace, y luego añadió, innecesariamente: "Will, quiero decir". Halt se giró sobre su silla para mirar al hombre más joven y enarcó una ceja. "Puede que esté casi senil a tus ojos, Horace, pero no hay necesidad de explicarme lo ciegamente obvio. Difícilmente habría pensado que te referías a Tug.

  John Flanagan

  Medio, Ojo, Hombres

  John Flanagan (2011). “Halt's Peril (Ranger's Apprentice Book 9)”, p.25, Random House

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• Would you have done that in his place? Would you have left him and gone on?" "Of course I would!" Halt replied immediately. But something in his voice rang false and Horse looked at him, raising one eyebrow. He'd waited a long time for an opportunity to use that expression of disbelief on Halt. After a pause, the Ranger's anger subsided. "All right. Perhaps I wouldn't," he admitted. Then he glared at Horace. "And stop raising that eyebrow on me. You can't even do it properly. Your other eyebrow moves with it!

  John Flanagan

  Horse, Moving, Opportunity

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• Da un paso más y te atravieso con una flecha". Will intentó modelar su voz con el tono tranquilo y amenazador que había utilizado Halt. Había recuperado varias de sus flechas de la diana más cercana y ahora tenía una de ellas preparada, apoyada en la cuerda del arco. Halt miró a su alrededor con aprobación. "Buena idea", dijo. "Apunta a la pantorrilla izquierda. Es una herida muy dolorosa.

  John Flanagan

  Ideas, Voice, Arrows

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• What about you three, where are you going?" Even before Halt answered, Will knew what he was going to say. But that didn't make it any less terrifying or blood-chilling when the words were said. "We're going after the Kalkara.

  John Flanagan

  Blood, Three, Chill

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• Ah, Signor Halt,' he said uncertainly, 'you are making a joke, yes?' 'He is making a joke, no,' Will said. 'But he likes to think he is making a joke, yes.

  John Flanagan

  Thinking, Likes, Said

  John Flanagan (2011). “Halt's Peril (Ranger's Apprentice Book 9)”, p.443, Random House

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• Will raised both eyebrows. 'Well, you learn a new thing everyday,' he said reflectively. 'In your case, that's no exaggeration,' Halt said, completely straight-faced.

  John Flanagan

  Inspirational, Eyebrows, Everyday

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• Posiciones de lucha, por favor, señoras..." "Eso es discutible", dijo Halt en voz baja a Will mientras miraban... ¿La parte de la "lucha" o la parte de las "damas"? respondió Will con una sonrisa. Halt le miró y negó con la cabeza. Definitivamente las 'damas'", dijo. No hay discusión sobre las "peleas". Will se encogió de hombros. Sabía que la relación entre las chicas era tensa y que tenía algo que ver con él. No entendía por qué.

  John Flanagan

  Girl, Fighting, Edginess

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• Now for God's sake, will you two start behaving like a princess and a Courier?" Halt told them. "If you don't, I'll have to think about sending Will home.' 'Me?' Will said, his voice breaking into a high-pitched squeak of indignation. 'What's it got to do with me?' 'It's all your fault!' Halt shouted irrationally.

  John Flanagan

  Princess, Home, Thinking

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• Shokaku is a crane of some kind.' 'For lifting things?' Will asked. 'For flying. A large bird type of crane,' she corrected him. 'In fact, as near I can Work it out, Shokaku means “a flying crane". 'Seems like a logical thing for a crane to do,' Halt mused. 'I suppose you wouldn't expect it to mean “a hiking crane" or “a waddling crane".'

  John Flanagan

  Mean, Hiking, Bird

  "The Emperor of Nihon-Ja".

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• You're right, Halt,' she said, and he nodded acklowledgement of her backing down. 'Nice to hear someone else saying that for a change,' Will said cheerfully. 'Seems like I've said those words an awful lot in my time.' Halt turned a bleak gaze on him. 'And you've always been right.

  John Flanagan

  Nice, Awful, Said

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• The two girls disappeared into the stern cabin once more. Will watched them go, then asked Halt, 'Anything you'd like me to do? Grow a beard? Learn to walk like a rooster?' 'If you could stop asking facetious questions, that'd be a start,' Halt told him. 'But it's probably a little late in life for you to do that.

  John Flanagan

  Girl, Two, Roosters

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• Without thinking, [Will] spoke. 'Halt? Are you awake?' 'No.' The ill humor in the one-word reply was unmistakable. 'Oh. Sorry.' 'Shut up.' He pondered whether to apologize again and decided this would go against the instruction to shut up, so remained silent.

  John Flanagan

  Sorry, Thinking, Apologizing

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• Halt! How are you? What have you been doing? Where's Abelard? How's Crowley? What's this all about?" "I'm glad to see you rate my horse more important than our Corps Commandant," Halt said, one eyebrow rising in the expression that Will knew so well. Early in their relationship, he had thought it was an expression of displeasure. He had learned years ago that it was, for Halt, the equivalent of a smile.

  John Flanagan

  Horse, Expression, Years

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• The young gentleman is correct," he said. Halt raised an eyebrow. "He may be correct, and he is undoubtedly young. But he's no gentleman." ~Halt and General Sapristi speaking of Will

  John Flanagan

  Eyebrows, Gentleman, May

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• Bear with me on this, Evanlyn. I know you're anxious about Horace." WIll was a little puzzled by Halt's words. "No more anxious than the rest of us, surely," he said. Halt turned away and raised his eyebrows as his gaze met Selethen's. Sometimes, he thought, his former apprentice could be remarkably slow on the uptake. He saw the Arridi's slow nod of understanding. ~Halt & Will about Evanlyn and Horace

  John Flanagan

  Eyebrows, Understanding, Littles

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• Pero decidir no tener hijos es una decisión muy, muy difícil de tomar para una mujer: el ambiente es preocupantemente poco propicio para decir "decido no hacerlo" o "todo esto suena un poco vil, tbh". Llamamos a estas mujeres "egoístas" La inferencia de la palabra "sin hijos" es negativa: de carencia y pérdida. Pensamos que las mujeres que no son madres son lobos solitarios, tan peligrosos como los adolescentes o los hombres. Hacemos que las mujeres sientan que su narrativa se ha detenido en la treintena si no "terminan las cosas" como es debido y tienen hijos.

  Caitlin Moran

  Mother, Teenage, Children

  "How To Be a Woman". Book by Caitlin Moran, 2011.

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• Escucha, ¿estamos indefensos? ¿Estamos condenados a hacerlo una y otra vez? ¿No tenemos más remedio que hacer de Fénix en una secuencia interminable de ascenso y caída? Asiria, Babilonia, Egipto, Grecia, Cartago, Roma, los imperios de Carlomagno y el Turco: reducidos a polvo y arados con sal. España, Francia, Gran Bretaña, América: quemadas en el olvido de los siglos. Y otra vez y otra vez y otra vez. ¿Estamos condenados a ello, Señor, encadenados al péndulo de nuestro propio loco mecanismo de relojería, impotentes para detener su oscilación? Esta vez, nos hará caer en el olvido.

  Walter M. Miller, Jr.

  Fall, Play, Phoenix

  Walter M. Miller Jr (2014). “A Canticle For Leibowitz”, p.146, Hachette UK

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• Face your fears, Halt had always thought him, and more often than not they fade like mist in the sunshine

  John Flanagan

  Sunshine, Faces, Face Your Fears

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• Tuviste a este joven contigo durante... ¿cuánto, seis años?" Halt se encogió de hombros. "Casi lo suficiente", respondió. "¿Y alguna vez entendió una palabra de lo que decía? "La mayor parte del tiempo, no", dijo Halt. Crowley sacudió la cabeza, asombrado. "Menos mal que no entró en el Servicio Diplomático. Ya estaríamos en guerra con media docena de países si anduviera suelto". Will respiró hondo para empezar a hablar. Notó que ambos hombres retrocedían medio paso involuntariamente y decidió que sería mejor tratar de hacerlo lo más sencillo posible.

  John Flanagan

  Country, War, Simple

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• Would you trust him with your life, Halt?" Gilan interrupted, and Halt looked up at him. "Yes," he said quietly. Gilan patted his shoulder once more. "Then trust him with his own," he said simply.

  John Flanagan

  Said, Shoulders, Interrupted

  John Flanagan (2011). “Erak's Ransom (Ranger's Apprentice Book 7)”, p.178, Random House

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• You spoil your horse, Halt said. Will glanced at him. You spoil yours. Halt considered the thought, then nodded. That's true.

  John Flanagan

  Horse, Said, Spoil

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