The Third Wedding Quotes

“Suddenly, I could see it all so vividly: the cruelty and inhumanity of self-righteous people, who like to think that they're saints, pure as the driven snow.”
― Costas Taktsis, The Third Wedding

“You really liked having him in jail, like people who shut birds up in cages on the excuse that they're protecting them from their enemies.”
― Costas Taktsis, The Third Wedding

“Before it began to open new wounds, the war healed quite a few old ones: it shook us out of our lethargy, our life took on new meaning, we no longer lived without a purpose, eating and sleeping and excreting like animals.”
― Costas Taktsis, The Third Wedding

“María, pensaba, es como el náufrago que se está ahogando… Si intento acercarme a ella para salvarla, me arrastrará a mí también al fondo del mar. Mejor será que me salve yo, y así podré darle tiempo a que crezca, a que madure un poco.”
― Costas Taktsis, La tercera boda

“Hecuba had the mistaken notion, just like my poor mama, that all a girl had to do was to get married and all her problems were solved overnight.”
― Costas Taktsis, The Third Wedding

“Do you really think it's behaving like a Christian to be glad when you see death and ruin falling on your fellow men? Is that what Christ taught us?”
― Costas Taktsis, The Third Wedding

“When you're dead, you're dead, and that's that.”
― Costas Taktsis, The Third Wedding