“It was a relationship that ended because it couldn't go anywhere, because it never should have begun.” — María Dueñas Ended Copy Share Image
“I know when I call you / among all people in the world / only you will be you.” — María Dueñas Know Copy Share Image
“before the turns that destiny unexpectedly places before us, reason is sometimes useless.” — María Dueñas Destiny Copy Share Image
“Hunger sharpens your ingenuity, she would always conclude with a laugh.” — María Dueñas Laughter 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 Rebuild Yourself 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 Old Cockatoos 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
“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 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
“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
“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
“... 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
“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
“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
“All those invisible presences ... began to transform themselves into companions that were more or less volatile, more or less intense, companions… — María Dueñas Life 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 Different perspective Copy Share Image
