Milena Agus > Quotes

“With him she felt no embarrassment, not even if they peed together to get rid of the stones, and since her whole life she had been told that she was like someone from the land of the moon, it seemed to her that she had finally met someone from her own land, and that was the principal thing in life, which she had never had.”
― Milena Agus, From the Land of the Moon

“Yo creo que si queremos que una persona que nos cae antipática siga siendo antipática para siempre, debemos negarnos de plano a conocerla”
― Milena Agus

“La diferencia entre cuando eres rico y famoso y cuando dejas de serlo es que, antes, todas las cosas raras que hacías se consideraban como la libre expresión del genio; después, se tienen por algo fastidioso e insoportable”
― Milena Agus

“Morir, morir, en cuanto hay alguna dificultad a todos nos entra esa obsesión con la muerte.”
― Milena Agus

“When the mistral blew we put on bandannas and hurried up to save the plants, setting them against walls or covering them with plastic, while some of the more delicate ones we brought into the house until the wind stopped blowing, sweeping everything away.”
― Milena Agus, From the Land of the Moon

“Te deseo la inmensa felicidad que nos llega de la felicidad de alguien que es feliz con nosotros”
― Milena Agus

“...he spoke of these things generally, referring to the Sardinian society of the interior. Cagliari was different; there people didn't take offense at a little nothing and didn't find evil everywhere. Maybe it was the sea air that made them freer, at least in certain respects, though not politically, because the Cagliaritani were bourgeois who never felt like fighting for anything.”
― Milena Agus, From the Land of the Moon