Maria Duenas Quotes

#1. My day had already had a good dose of bitterness, and I preferred to keep it from getting any sadder.

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#2. ... Full of old cockatoos who used to be rich and aren't any longer, but they cling to yesterday tooth and nail, preferring to live on bread and sardines rather than sell what little they have left of their faded glory.

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#3. When you undertake a change like that you have to do it with dreams and hopes, with illusions. To go without them is to merely run away ...

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#4. He spoke with complicity, familiarly, as though he knew me; as though his soul and mine had been waiting for each other since the beginning of time.

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#5. Normality wasn't in the days I'd left behind me: it was only to be found in whatever fortune placed in my path each morning.

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#6. Hunger sharpens your ingenuity, she would always conclude with a laugh.

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#7. One of the effects of being crazily, obsessively in love is that it dulls your senses, your capacity for perception, till you no longer notice what is happening around you.

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#8. Sometimes luck decides to make our decisions for us, no?

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#9. 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.

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#10. My fear didn't want to be left behind, so it came with me.

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#11. It was a relationship that ended because it couldn't go anywhere, because it never should have begun.

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#12. The only ones who have been silenced forever are the dead. The rest, even in the distance, still remain sons of the fatherland, keeping its memory alive and ennobling our language with their words.

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#13. Living a life filled with deprivation and working from sunrise to sunset from your earliest years isn't to anybody's taste.

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