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“With flamenco I was transported into a world where everyone is beautiful, because beauty is in everything, the glorious and the ugly; because flamenco celebrates living, through the cries of pain and the cries of joy, the symmetry of a young face and the character of an old face.”
― Nellie Bennett, Only in Spain: A Foot-Stomping, Firecracker of a Memoir about Food, Flamenco, and Falling in Love

“I’d dreamed of the perfect man. He’d be tall with dark hair and darker eyes that would meet mine across a crowded room, and I would know immediately he was the one I’d been waiting for.”
― Nellie Bennett, Only in Spain: A Foot-Stomping, Firecracker of a Memoir about Food, Flamenco, and Falling in Love

“out underneath the orange trees. The blossoms were just starting to open, and their fragrance wafted down to us. “I love this smell,” she said. “I want to find a perfume that smells like this. In Spain it is called azahar, you know? It is an Arabic word.”
― Nellie Bennett, Only in Spain: A Foot-Stomping, Firecracker of a Memoir about Food, Flamenco, and Falling in Love