Paola Nava Gavaldón > Paola's Quotes

“Mi padre siempre decia que cuando compites en un intercambio de mierda, lo importante no es saber cuanta arrojas sino cuanta se te adhiere”
― Stephen King, Ojos de fuego

“If a man hasn't what's necessary to make a woman love him, it's his fault, not hers.”
― W. Somerset Maugham, The Painted Veil

“He did not speak because he had nothing to say. But if nobody spoke unless he had something to say, kitty reflected, with a smile, the human race would very soon loose the use of speach”
― W. Somerset Maugham, The Painted Veil

“Yo no soy para nada bonita, pero cuando sea grande quiero ser el tipo de persona que haga que la gente diga: "Cuando la conoces no la puedes olvidar".”
― Jackie French, Missing You, Love Sara

“I love you, and I want you to love me. But I do not want you to lose yourself in me, or in anyone. Nor do I want you to draw your self-confidence and your trust in life from me or from anyone else. I want you to have your own individual, independent self, and the confidence that can only spring from the self, not from others. Then -When you have achieved that - no one will ever be able to crush you.”
― Latifa al-Zayyat, الباب المفتوح

“I'm going to bring up my daughter so that she is free and can stand on her own feet. I'm not going to bring a child into the world, and love her, and bring her up, just so that some man may want to sleep with her so much that he is willing to provide her with board and lodging for the rest of her life”
― W. Somerset Maugham, The Painted Veil

“I don't know if you fill him with such a repulsion that it gives him goose-flesh to be near you or if he is burning with a love that for some reason he will not allow himself to show”
― W. Somerset Maugham, The Painted Veil