Maria Duenas Quotes & Sayings

Sometimes luck decides to make our decisions for us, no? — Maria Duenas

It was a relationship that ended because it couldn't go anywhere, because it never should have begun. — Maria Duenas

... 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

My fear didn't want to be left behind, so it came with me. — Maria Duenas

All those invisible presences ... began to transform themselves into companions that were more or less volatile, more or less intense, companions that I'd have to learn to live with. They invaded my mind when I was alone, in the silent evenings toiling away in the workshop between patterns and bastings, when I went to bed or in the gloom of the living room ... — Maria Duenas

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Hunger sharpens your ingenuity, she would always conclude with a laugh. — Maria Duenas

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