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“When you hear a Spanish cook describe a paella or a cake, you realize she’s using a much richer repertoire of adjectives than what one of us would use to characterize a book or an important experience.”
― Julio Cortázar, Final Exam

“She was becoming herself and daily casting aside that fictitious self which we assume like a garment with which to appear before the world.”
― Kate Chopin, The Awakening

“I wish I could take it all in, hold it in my arms or be held in its arms. Something is swelling inside me, getting larger and larger... I sigh. "What's the matter, Katerina? Are you sad?" everyone asks. "No," I answer. "I'm perfectly happy.”
― Margarita Liberaki, Three Summers

“When I think of my father's house it's the mixed-up smell of medicine and wine in the street that I remember, and also the idea of women giving birth as they listen to people singing in the taverna and of people singing as they listen to women screaming.”
― Margarita Liberaki, Three Summers

“But she wasn't scared of the heat. She welcomed it. under her skin it was as if the cells were dancing. And further in, the blood.”
― Margarita Liberaki, Three Summers

“He was so sturdy, like a piece of well-chiseled stone. His nose, his chin, his forehead were composed in straight lines, his shoulders and soul, too. Not a single curve. Whereas her body was all round, with sweet, smooth curves and rises, gentle like the earth itself, longing to partake of the other.”
― Margarita Liberaki, Three Summers

“She screamed. Then she became calm like the river that flows through the same river bed for centuries.”
― Margarita Liberaki, Three Summers

“Later at night in bed when she drowned him in kisses, his heart wouldn't warm up; the loneliness had spread inside him when the shade had fallen in the ravine.”
― Margarita Liberaki, Three Summers

“He had taken her warmth and shut it up inside himself.”
― Margarita Liberaki, Three Summers

“Dusk, like a painter, gave a certain overpowering tone to the landscape that united all the colors and effaced discord.”
― Margarita Liberaki, Three Summers

“I've got to go or the water will overflow.”
― Margarita Liberaki, Three Summers

“The fire lasted for three days and three nights. Now the mountain looks like a wounded beast baring its wounds to the sun.”
― Margarita Liberaki, Three Summers