Furia

Yamile Saied Méndez

Top 10 Best Quotes

“Our family was stuck in a cosmic hamster wheel of toxic love, making the same mistakes, saying the same words, being hurt in the same ways generation after generation. I didn’t want to keep playing a role in this tragedy of errors.”

“The sense of wonder and possibility – that I owed to the Argentine women who had fought for freedom before the universe conspired and the stars aligned to make me.”

“If family folklore was to be trusted, I had never learned to shut up or do as I was told.”

“The girl Diego said he loved was the strong one, the winning Camila, the one with a future she was forging for herself… If he rescued me, if I quit for him. I wouldn’t be the girl he loved. I wouldn’t be myself.”

“Prejudice didn't read or obey laws. It was a hard weed to pull from people's hearts.”

“I’ll rescue myself. No one will ever lock me up in a tower.”

“I’d leave this house the first chance I got, but not by chasing after a boy, including my brother. I’d do it on my own terms, following my dreams, not someone else’s.”

“The rest of my life is a mess, but at least on the pitch I get to do what I love.”

“I was tired of running. We were all buried underneath mountains of blame, shame, guilt, and lies.”

“Twenty years from now, would that be me? Would I be resigned to my fate, pushing my daughter toward the light so she could be free? Or pulling her down so I wouldn’t be along in the dark?”

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