All This I Will Give to You Quotes

“Sería más fácil si los muertos no dejaran sus pertenencias atrás, como cascarones vacíos de nautilus extinguidos; sería más sencillo si cualquier huella de su existencia fuera borrada con ellos, olvidando incluso sus nombres como los de los faraones del Antiguo Egipto.”
― Dolores Redondo, Todo esto te daré

“A veces es mejor callar todo que mentir en partes.”
― Dolores Redondo, Todo esto te daré

“Leer era una defensa, un escudo con el que armar de recursos su timidez para relacionarse. Pero escribir era infinitamente más que eso. Escribir era el palacio interior, los sitios secretos, los lugares más bellos formando parte de un conjunto de ilimitadas estancias que él recorría, riendo, corriendo descalzo, deteniéndose a acariciar la belleza de los tesoros que allí albergaba.”
― Dolores Redondo, Todo esto te daré

“¿Acaso la verdad solo lo es cuando nos muestra aquello que esperábamos ver?, ¿cuando su revelación nos trae alivio frente el avance de la corrosiva incertidumbre? ¿Y si, en lugar de bálsamo en la herida, la verdad es un nuevo ácido más virulento todavía?”
― Dolores Redondo, Todo esto te daré

“sin dejar que la desnudez del alma se convirtiese en pornografía de las emociones.”
― Dolores Redondo, Todo esto te daré

“He'd sworn he'd never let anyone become important enough to make him fear loss.”
― Dolores Redondo, All This I Will Give to You

“Certainty gives only momentary relief, for truth is always overwhelming.”
― Dolores Redondo, All This I Will Give to You

“Había mentido al único ser de este mundo que debía conocer siempre la verdad, a él mismo. La”
― Dolores Redondo, Todo esto te daré

“sentir su entidad efímera, como piel humana.”
― Dolores Redondo, Todo esto te daré

“And he kept hearing in the distance the insistent weeping of a six-year-old boy.”
― Dolores Redondo, All This I Will Give to You

“God is real, but so is the devil. Evil hearts summon him or he comes on his own, creeping into our lives and making us miserable.”
― Dolores Redondo, All This I Will Give to You

“There’s a type of open grief that’s public, one of tears and mourning; and there’s another, immense and silent, that is a million times more powerful. He was certain he’d experienced such open grief: his rejection of the injustice of losing his parents, all the miserable cold of childhood loneliness, the grim public mourning that marked him and his sister as bereaved and damaged, and all the fears that arose in his spirit and made him weep night after night in panic as he clung to his sister and made her promise she’d never abandon him, made her pledge that this suffering was the price they were paying to become invulnerable.”
― Dolores Redondo, All This I Will Give to You

“grief was immense and silent.”
― Dolores Redondo, All This I Will Give to You

“the grim public mourning that marked him and his sister as bereaved and damaged”
― Dolores Redondo, All This I Will Give to You

“rejection of the injustice of losing his parents,”
― Dolores Redondo, All This I Will Give to You

“There’s a type of open grief that’s public, one of tears and mourning; and there’s another, immense and silent, that is a million times more powerful.”
― Dolores Redondo, All This I Will Give to You

“Reading had been his refuge throughout his life,”
― Dolores Redondo, All This I Will Give to You

“Reading was a defense, a shield his timidity could use to arm itself, a guide to seeking relationships. But writing was infinitely more than that. Writing was an interior palace with secret sites, gorgeous places, a complex of unlimited spaces. He explored them, laughing, running barefoot, and stopping to touch the beautiful treasures stored there.”
― Dolores Redondo, All This I Will Give to You

“In order to write he would have had to embrace the immensity of grief.”
― Dolores Redondo, All This I Will Give to You

“tormented by uncertainty. Surely your husband must have had a reason for not telling you. We’re certain it’s him. No one answered because our colleagues in Monforte have his phone in custody.”
― Dolores Redondo, All This I Will Give to You

“Sharing grief is the only way a good man can find release from his own pain.”
― Dolores Redondo, All This I Will Give to You

“I believe that physical labor confers a dignity fundamental to all human beings, a nobility that’s diluted by dull daily routine. I regain that nobility when I come here.”
― Dolores Redondo, All This I Will Give to You

“Lucas nodded. “So am I. He’s in agony. Given the circumstances, he’s holding up pretty well; he’s stronger than”
― Dolores Redondo, All This I Will Give to You

“Reconocer a alguien que, como ella misma, había aceptado ser carcelero de su miedo había sido suficiente para conmover su corazón, para, sin palabras, rendirse ante un sufrimiento que presentía inmenso.”
― Dolores Redondo, Todo esto te daré

“a la tierra desde hace dos mil años. Si de pronto llega alguien que pone en valor lo que haces, que logra que te sientas orgulloso por ser como eres, por hacer lo que haces y que encima te permite ganarte la vida con ello, esa persona pasa a ser muy importante. Manuel”
― Dolores Redondo, Todo esto te daré

“La llamada a la puerta sonó autoritaria. Ocho golpes seguros, rápidos, de quien espera ser atendido con diligencia. El tipo de requerimiento que jamás podría confundirse con la llamada de un invitado, de un operario o de un repartidor. Más tarde, pensaría que al fin y al cabo es así como uno espera que llame la policía.”
― Dolores Redondo, Todo esto te daré

“escribir surge de la necesidad humana, de la penuria del alma, de un hambre y un frío por dentro que sólo se calma, temporalmente, escribiendo.”
― Dolores Redondo, Todo esto te daré

“Certainty gives only momentary relief, for truth is always overwhelming. You can assimilate it if it comes to you gradually, just as the earth of Galicia absorbs the water falling from the sky; but when truth washes over you like a tsunami, it causes as much anguish as the blackest of all lies.”
― Dolores Redondo, All This I Will Give to You