“... living a life filled with deprivation and working from sunrise to sunset from your earliest years isn't to anybody's taste.” — María Dueñas 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 with those turbulent times, can be researched in libraries or the memories of the elderly. People like Beigbeder, Rosalinda, or Hillgarth went on to the history books. People like Marcus and me didn't. But that doesn't… — María Dueñas Copy Share
“... 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
