Maria E. Andreu > Quotes

“Fuckface. A face that likes to do sex? Doosh nozl? Shit biscuit? Duck butter? Bananas. Like “crazy”? If I had to pick a fruit that is crazy, I’d pick pomegranates, with their juicy beads hiding in impossible recovecos, from which it takes an hour to free them. If that’s not bananas, I don’t know what”
― Maria E. Andreu, Love in English

“He wears happy well. That is a new expression I have learned. To wear an emotion, like it is clothes. I like it.”
― Maria E. Andreu, Love in English

“In Spanish, 'estoy' gives you a way out.
Here, 'I am' makes everything sound like an identity, not a thing that can pass, like in Spanish.”
― Maria E. Andreu, Love in English

“Maybe life is like this, the moments that come, not the ones we try to make.”
― Maria E. Andreu, Love in English

“Meatballs. Sometimes English does just tell it like it is.”
― Maria E. Andreu, Love in English

“Recipe for Disaster:
How do you get an apple in your eye?
Just how easy is pie?
Who would eat crow,
Or eat their heart out?
Or how could anyone eat enough hay to eat like a horse?
How can a potato sit on the couch?
In a world where so many things are confusing,
Even food,
I dream of a day when it is a piece of cake.”
― Maria E. Andreu, Love in English

“I lack precisely the thing to explain what I lack. The words. For every word I get out, there's a whole iceberg of thoughts and hopes and feelings that stay unspoken. But how do I speak them?”
― Maria E. Andreu, Love in English

“My family is not running a marathon. We're running a relay. My parents have gotten me this far. Everything I do is to get us further. I carry their hopes along with my own.”
― Maria E. Andreu, Love in English

“Sure.” I say sure like, whatever. But I feel like ohmygod.”
― Maria E. Andreu, Love in English

“Because words aren't really just sounds scribbled down. They are the whole thing that they stand for. Collecting words is collecting little bits of life.”
― Maria E. Andreu, Love in English