Hugo Marroquín > Hugo's Quotes

“I do not understand how anyone can live without some small place of enchantment to turn to.”
― Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

“Se fue volviendo cada vez más introvertido. Le gustaba vagar solo y sin rumbo...”
― Patrick Süskind

“No te necesitaba, idiota. Te he elegido. Y luego tú me has elegido a mí.”
― John Green, Paper Towns

“You're so full of crap, you could pass for a toilet.”
― Kami Garcia, Beautiful Creatures

“The human heart has a way of making itself large again even after it's been broken into a million pieces.”
― Robert James Waller, The Bridges of Madison County

“In a universe of ambiguity, this kind of certainty comes only once, and never again, no matter how many lifetimes you live.”
― Robert James Waller, The Bridges of Madison County

“The old dreams were good dreams; they didn't work out but I'm glad I had them.”
― Robert James Waller, The Bridges of Madison County

“It's clear to me now that I have been moving toward you and you toward me for a long time. Though neither of us was aware of the other before we met, there was a kind of mindless certainty bumming blithely along beneath our ignorance that ensured we would come together. Like two solitary birds flying the great prairies by celestial reckoning, all of these years and lifetimes we have been moving toward one another.”
― Robert James Waller, The Bridges of Madison County

“Analysis destroys wholes. Some things, magic things, are meant to stay whole. If you look at their pieces, they go away.”
― Robert James Waller, The Bridges Of Madison County

“And in that moment, everything I knew to be true about myself up until then was gone. I was acting like another woman, yet I was more myself than ever before.”
― Robert James Waller, The Bridges of Madison County

“First you must have the images, then come the words.”
― Robert James Waller, The Bridges of Madison County

“I sometimes have the feeling you've been here a long time, more than one lifetime, and that you've dwelt in private places none of the rest of us has even dreamed about.”
― Robert James Waller , The Bridges of Madison County

“We have both lost ourselves and created something else, something that exists only as an interlacing of the two of us. ”
― Robert James Waller

“When a woman makes the choice to marry, to have children, in one way her life begins but in another way it stops. You build a life of details. You become a mother, a wife and you stop and stay steady so that your children can move. And when they leave they take your life of details with them. And then you're expected to move again only you don't remember what moves you because no one has asked in so long. Not even yourself.”
― Robert James Waller

“One great love in a single lifetime was enough for anyone.”
― Robert James Waller, A Thousand Country Roads

“La cotidianeidad absorbe, carcome, mutila; todo sin darnos cuenta. Un día desaparecen las atenciones tan despacio que ni lo notas”
― Hugo Marroquín, Los años de los amantes

“En la vida aprendes que tienes que preguntar sólo aquello que puedes soportar cuando se te responda”
― Hugo Marroquín, Los años de los amantes

“Los actos de crueldad son propios de quien no te conoce. Los actos de vileza son propios de quien ya no te quiere”
― Hugo Marroquín, Los años de los amantes

“La vida es así: corres en busca de algo y no lo encuentras, no importa cuán rápido sea”
― Hugo Marroquín, Los años de los amantes

“...things get broken, and sometimes they get repaired, and in most cases, you realize that no matter what gets damaged, life rearranges itself to compensate for your loss, sometimes wonderfully.”
― Hanya Yanagihara, A Little Life