Maria Duenas Quotes

#1. Human civilization is not something achieved against nature; it is rather the outcome of the working of the innate qualities of man.

Ludwig Von Mises

#2. You'd think getting chopped into a million pieces and cast into the darkest part of the Underworld would give him a subtle clue that nobody wanted him around.

Rick Riordan

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

Maria Duenas

#4. Cleanliness is very important. If you let kids make a total mess in the kitchen and then leave, you're not really teaching them anything.

Emeril Lagasse

#5. 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.

Maria Duenas

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

Maria Duenas

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

Maria Duenas

#8. Kat: You can't just buy me a guitar every time you mess up, you know.
Pat: I know, but there's still drums, and a bass, and maybe even someday a tambourine.

David Levithan

#9. How can those who live in the light of day possibly comprehend the depths of night?

Haruki Murakami

#10. 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

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

Maria Duenas

#12. In life it is better to be a supporting pillar than a destroying caterpillar

Ikechukwu Joseph

#13. 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.

Maria Duenas

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

Maria Duenas

#15. 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.

Maria Duenas

#16. 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.

Maria Duenas

#17. 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 ...

Maria Duenas

#18. ... 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.

Maria Duenas

#19. Whatever," Bruiser grumbled. "You look like Fabio." "Thank you," Drew said through a flattered smile. The dick.

T.S. Joyce

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

Maria Duenas

#21. When you cannot do what you have always done, then you only do what matters most.

Robert D. Hales