💬 Quotes

"The sky above the house was the color of a bruised plum. It did not look like a real sky."

"Education, wealth, and the pomp of power—how vanity of vanities was stamped upon them all when the pestilence stalked through the land."

"In love we find out who we want to be; in war we find out who we are."

"If I have learned anything in this long, cold life, it is that there is nothing more powerful than a woman's will to survive."

"Men tell stories. Women live them. For us, in the end, there is no silver screen, no audience to applaud, no war stories to be told in bars."

"I am not afraid of dying. I am afraid of living without knowing who I am."

"It was not easy to be brave. It was not easy to be good. But it was necessary."

"I loved you more than my life, and I lost you because of my own fear."

"¿Eres tú mi mamá?"

"¡No soy tu mamá! Soy un perro."

"Mamá no es un barco. Mamá no es un avión. Mamá no es un avión. ¡Mamá no es un perro!"

"¡Tú no eres mi mamá! ¡Eres un resbaladero!"

"¡Te voy a llevar a casa! ¡Yo sé dónde vives!"

"¡Eres tú mi mamá!"

"They knew now that if there is one thing one can always yearn for and sometimes attain, it is human love."

"The plague bacillus never dies or disappears for good; it can lie dormant for years... and perhaps the day would come when, for the bane and the enlightening of men, it would rouse up its rats again and send them forth to die in a contented city."

"Things usually work out in the end. What if they don't? That just means you haven't come to the end yet."

"You should never hate anyone, even your worst enemies. Everyone has something good about them. You have to find the redeeming quality and love the person for that."

"Life is a drama full of tragedy and comedy. You should learn to enjoy the comic episodes a little more."

"I’d tell her that I was sorry, but she just shrugged and said that being sorry was a useless emotion."