Angélica Lopes > Quotes

“Eugênia’s story must be told and remembered so we don’t forget her. It’s symbolic, I know, but it’s these kinds of small gestures that remind us we must always seek freedom and that even in defeat there is victory, because there was a struggle.”
― Angélica Lopes, The Curse of the Flores Women

“For him, teaching was not a job, but a vocation. He saw in each student the boy he once was, and it was his wish that all of them, without exception, grow up to become more than they were in the present, and that they would know more as adults than they did as children.”
― Angélica Lopes, The Curse of the Flores Women

“As the years went by and people felt distant from events, it also gave them the chance—no longer protagonists—to become spectators of their own timeline.”
― Angélica Lopes, The Curse of the Flores Women

“compared to the feeling of victory Eugênia felt in that moment. On the floor, the lace with the desperately stitched words”
― Angélica Lopes, The Curse of the Flores Women