Misión olvido Quotes

“«Dicen que la compasión es un síntoma de madurez emocional; no es una obligación moral ni un sentimiento que nazca de la reflexión.”
― María Dueñas, Misión olvido

“Se le veía cómodo, con la apariencia de ese tipo de personas que, de tanto ir y venir por la vida, son capaces de sentirse a gusto en todas partes.”
― María Dueñas, Misión olvido

“before the turns that destiny unexpectedly places before us, reason is sometimes useless.”
― María Dueñas, The Heart Has Its Reasons

“I know when I call you / among all people in the world / only you will be you.”
― María Dueñas, The Heart Has Its Reasons

“Getting older when you’re a grown-up is not as much fun as when you’re a kid. No one gives you interesting presents, only books, records, ties, and nonsense like that. But to reach a certain age has its positive side. You lose a few things along the way, but you also gain others. You learn to see the world from a different perspective, for instance, and you develop strange feelings, such as compassion. Which is nothing other than wanting to see others free of suffering, regardless of the previous suffering they might have caused us. Without holding anyone accountable or looking back.”
― María Dueñas, The Heart Has Its Reasons

“Que la lumière des années t’aide à voir plus clairement ton avenir. Joyeux anniversaire.”
― María Dueñas, Demain à Santa Cecilia

“el temple de Rosalía y estaba por eso segura de que mi grito no iba a caer en el fondo de un saco cargado de olvidos.”
― María Dueñas, Misión olvido

“incongruité”
― María Dueñas, Demain à Santa Cecilia

“maturité bien sonnée,”
― María Dueñas, Demain à Santa Cecilia

“Y hubo además quien nunca se fue y vivió un exilio interno, amargo, mudo.”
― María Dueñas, Misión olvido

“Because things need their closure, Blanca, even though it may be painful. It's not wise to leave open wounds. Time cures everything, but before that, it's best to reconcile yourself with whatever you've left behind.”
― María Dueñas, The Heart Has Its Reasons

“I told you that things always need to be given their rightful end even if it turns out to be heart-wrenching, so one can heal without leaving any scars.”
― María Dueñas, The Heart Has Its Reasons

“But everything passes, Blanca, everything passes, believe me. It’s hard as hell and nothing is ever the same, but in the end—and I know what I’m talking about—you rebuild yourself.”
― María Dueñas, The Heart Has Its Reasons

“But due to some strange lack of neural coordination between the faculties of thinking and speaking, or perhaps to the crucial lifeline that lucidity once in a while tosses to us when we are at the edge of a precipice, the words that came out”
― María Dueñas, The Heart Has Its Reasons

“escueto”
― María Dueñas, Misión olvido

“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.”
― María Dueñas, The Heart Has Its Reasons