“It was a relationship that ended because it couldn't go anywhere, because it never should have begun.” — María Dueñas Copy Share Image
“before the turns that destiny unexpectedly places before us, reason is sometimes useless.” — María Dueñas Destiny Copy Share Image
“I know when I call you / among all people in the world / only you will be you.” — María Dueñas Copy Share Image
“My day had already had a good dose of bitterness, and I preferred to keep it from getting any sadder.” — María Dueñas Anger Copy Share Image
“Hunger sharpens your ingenuity, she would always conclude with a laugh.” — María Dueñas Hunger Copy Share Image
“When you undertake a change like that you have to do it with dreams and hopes, with illusions. To go without them… — María Dueñas Change Copy Share Image
“But everything passes, Blanca, everything passes, believe me. It’s hard as hell and nothing is ever the same, but in the end—and… — María Dueñas Copy Share Image
“... living a life filled with deprivation and working from sunrise to sunset from your earliest years isn't to anybody's taste.” — María Dueñas Deprivation Copy Share Image
“... Full of old cockatoos who used to be rich and aren't any longer, but they cling to yesterday tooth and nail,… — María Dueñas Copy Share Image
“And yet for that, blood is thicker than water, even if the only thing you've shared with your people have been hardships… — Maria Duenas Blood is thicker than water Copy Share Image
“One of the effects of being crazily, obsessively in love is that it dulls your senses, your capacity for perception, till you… — María Dueñas Love Copy Share Image
“Normality wasn't in the days I'd left behind me: it was only to be found in whatever fortune placed in my path… — Maria Duenas Fortune Copy Share Image
“He spoke with complicity, familiarly, as though he knew me; as though his soul and mine had been waiting for each other… — María Dueñas Time Copy Share Image
“But due to some strange lack of neural coordination between the faculties of thinking and speaking, or perhaps to the crucial lifeline… — María Dueñas Lucidity Copy Share Image
“All those invisible presences ... began to transform themselves into companions that were more or less volatile, more or less intense, companions… — María Dueñas Companions Copy Share Image
“That was my story. Or at least the way I remember it. What happened to those characters and the places that had… — María Dueñas History Copy Share Image
“Getting older when you’re a grown-up is not as much fun as when you’re a kid. No one gives you interesting presents,… — María Dueñas Certain age Copy Share Image
