“And yet for that, blood is thicker than water, even if the only thing you've shared with your people have been hardships and miseries.” — Maria Duenas 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 that lucidity… — María Dueñas 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 I know… — María Dueñas Copy Share Image
“Hunger sharpens your ingenuity, she would always conclude with a laugh.” — María Dueñas 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 to do… — María Dueñas 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, preferring to… — María Dueñas Copy Share Image
“before the turns that destiny unexpectedly places before us, reason is sometimes useless.” — María Dueñas Copy Share Image
“It was a relationship that ended because it couldn't go anywhere, because it never should have begun.” — María Dueñas 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 no longer… — María Dueñas 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
“He spoke with complicity, familiarly, as though he knew me; as though his soul and mine had been waiting for each other since the… — María Dueñas Copy Share Image
