Remember the woman at Sodom and Gomorrah whose husband told her not to look back, as the angel of God had instructed? And what did she do? She looked back one last time, and turned to a pillar of salt...
Mine is not the only family to consider. There are many others that may die if none of us were to fight. You see how many volunteer to go up against the enemy now? Me alone in this room of hundreds. I...
I prayed in my heart for a real father, since the one I had been given was a failure to me. That was my deepest wish, and my deepest sorrow.
You should rejoice in what you do have.
I thought to myself how lucky, how lucky that I jumped at my only chance when I could. Sure, I did not love him, but I was loved. I had everything Corazón had wanted. I had beaten her at every round,...
There will come a day when this war shall end and we will have the sunlight on our faces again.
I have been her greatest foe, and she my biggest protector. Her heart is so pure, like a child’s. She gives without thinking. She longs to have beautiful things, I see it in her eyes, but she always t...
I had many dreams, too. But I became bitter, and by the time I realized it, I had almost wished my whole life away.
They want to break the only thing we have left, our spirits. I will not let them. No matter what they do to me.
You cannot have both. Riches and purity do not match. Humility hates pride. He paced in a circle. You have been warned.
She wants to study medicine, good for her. But why cause so much trouble for herself, trying to be a doctor? Be a nurse instead. This is more acceptable. For a woman to become a doctor is like climbin...
Yesterday you spoke of power as if it were a good thing. You said you wished we had some kind of magic that could rid us of the Japanese soldiers. I have never seen it used for good. Think of the Japa...
When you start to say to yourself, just one look back, just one glance, the danger will have begun for you.
Why anticipate bad things? We all experience these things, both the rich and the poor. Elena
Yet I see that she means for me to understand about choosing to truly live or choosing to stay alive when you have died inside.
I tell you now, better to spit it all out, cry a hundred days over this matter, an entire year, than ruin your life over it. You must acknowledge it now, so that it has no power over you. I do not ass...
These women were like her sisters. Even if she wanted desperately to be free of them. Sometimes the strongest prisons were the ones created by the people you loved the most.
Do not let your anger misguide you, my friend.
Do not hold this pain of what has happened to you close to your heart, Isabelle. You must let it go. No matter matter how painful. It will ruin you. If you keep silent, if you swallow it, it will eat...
Do not hold this pain of what has happened to you close to your heart, Isabelle. You must let it go. No matter how painful. It will ruin you. If you keep silent, if you swallow it, it will eat you lik...
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