Maria Quotes

I can never get used to not having you around Nanay. I travel the world but I can't find anybody like you!

My mother is the one true hero of my life

Fourteen years without a mother had me believe I could be stoic when I finally met her.

Two men. I had just killed two men. A killing machine, I hadn't even hesitated. Fear and rage settled deep in my chest, forming a layer of ice around my heart.

God, I don't really understand You but I know I can hug YOU..

It is unnecessary to heighten the glory of day by comparing it with the preceding twilight.

It is necessary - and toward this point our development will move, little by little - that nothing alien happen to us, but only what has long been our own.

Having kids — the responsibility of rearing good, kind, ethical, responsible human beings — is the biggest job anyone can embark on

When you have done your part it's time to release your work into the universe and let it do its part.

If, when you wake up in the morning, you can think of nothing but writing then you are a writer”"Se alla mattina quando ti alzi non pensi altro che allo scrivere allora sei uno scrittore

Everything that has been wrestled from doubtI welcome-the mouths that burst open afterlong knowledge of what it is to be mute.

Anything and everything made her think about him. He was so much a part of her, embedded in her soul. [Mina and Diego]

with a touch of sarcasm. “Glass is an amazing material. Versatile,

followed a step behind. My thoughts churned as my emotions seesawed

When angels carry you they leave no footprints in the sand.

Death is our friend, precisely because it brings us into absolute and passionate presence with all that is here, that is natural, that is love.

I could admire his skills, and be relieved when he was on my side in a fight. But for a rat to like the cat? That scenario ended only one way. With one dead rat.

But they fight in the name of the creator." "I don't care if they fight in the name of broccoli. The goal remains the same.

If anything at all, perfection is not when there is nothing to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

Works of art are infinitely solitary and nothing is less likely to reach them than criticism. Only love can grasp them and hold them and do them justice.

We will make ourselves comfortable and sleep, and eat as much as we can stuff into our bellies, and drink and smoke so that hours are not wasted. Life is short.

Daniel: So, how are you?Sophie: Buckling under the weight of a thousand expectations. You?

One always expects something else.

I wish dogs understood: 'We're going in five minutes.

Talent is being unabashedly and unapologetically fearless in the work that you do. The only difference between having talent and not having talent is fear.

I miss the thrill of your self-destructive heart that melts in the sun like chocolate, bittersweet and incandescent.

Don't go against your inner knowing. Just don't. Trust yourself.

You have the right to follow your heart. Do what feels right, for you.

Trust your guidance and don't look back.

If it doesn't feel right, don't do it. Trust your intuition and don't ask "why", just say no.

Intuition knows what the mind can't see yet.

Read the lines as if they were unknown to you, and you will feel in your inmost self how very much they are yours.

If you think your world isn’t poetic enough, or exciting enough to tell a story about, that’s not because it’s a dull world, that’s because you’re not poet enough to wake its soul up.

Stupidity is actually in a way the mark of intelligence - if you're not doing stupid things that defy logic you're probably not taking enough risks.

The lad, like many another, owed nothing to his father but his mere existence—Heaven knows whether that gift is oftenest a curse or a boon.

if this is a dream, then look in my eye's, am i asleep, no i'm alive, just can't believe that, this is my life, 'cause every moment is just so wild

Even people who've never seen a miracle can believe in miracles.

How he loved and yetwished to leave you: always both, at once.

I like the sky. It's rational to me in a way that life isn't.

Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love.

the most random things get her way too full of love

Focus only on what you love. Don't think about what you don't want - think about what you do want. Anything else is just a waste of energy.

Out of all the medical advancements in human history I'm still most in awe of that tiny little piece of toilet paper that can stop a gushing razor cut in its tracks.

In the room...they are inside the books. They move sometimes within the pages, like sleepers turning over between two dreams.

I believe that that love remains strong and intense in your memory because it was your first deep aloneness and the first inner work that you did on your life.

Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. ...live in the question.

My healthy blood was powerless to cure the sick blood of my beloved. That was beyond understanding. And so is death.

You were always the Harry to my Hermione, flushing away my erratic anxiety with the rudest sense of realism.

What I love about New York: the faster and more recklessly my cab driver drives the safer and all around better I feel.

Surrendering to who you really are and why you are here may very well change the world.