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292 pages, Paperback
First published September 13, 2019


🖌🎨 Why does the world expect her to descend the stairs and never breathe? Just because she's a woman? Of course she is a woman, but as fierce and unrestrained as she pleases!
🖌🎨 Sometimes the sight was too sad, and then she was embarrassed by what she had lost, by the wasted months.
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Life is too beautiful and colourful to just endure. I want to enjoy it, I want to feel joy and love.
🖌🎨 He doesn't even realise that he's making women unhappy.
🖌🎨 No man is worth shedding tears for him!
🖌🎨 No, it wasn't Diego's feelings that scared her, but her own, which she'd entirely and completely failed for last night.
🖌🎨 She was happy to be his wife. Happy and proud.
🖌🎨 Why is she feeling so safe with him? The thought that from today she would spend her life by his side, that she would enjoy the enormous privilege of being a part of his life forever, filled her with immense happiness.
🖌🎨 I want to stand next to him, not behind him.
🖌🎨 She wasn't faithful to herself, and now it made up for her. Diego's infidelity could not destroy her. But the fact that she lied to herself, yes.
🖌🎨 I will never allow not to notice certain things just because they are uncomfortable. I will remain myself, because it is always better to know the truth, even if it hurts, than to be deceived. Lie knocks you down on knees.
🖌🎨 I long for them, but I love you, Frida, I love you.
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But if you love me, how can you hurt me like that? What does Ione give you, what can I not give you?
🖌🎨 It was a beautiful feeling to be yourself again, again by Frida Kahlo. But then sadness fell over her. Wasn't this K actually admitting that she couldn't be Mrs. Rivera because she didn't give her husband a baby? Did she lose her name?
🖌🎨 She is Diego's wife before God and the world. But she's not just his wife. She's mostly Frida. Frida Kahlo. Painter.
🖌🎨 A monster is hiding under the colourful clothes. And under a lot of flowers, which I weave into my hair like a crown, there is my sadness...
🖌🎨 Maybe that would be the solution to our problems. We'll see each other, but we won't live together. She remembered Agosta's prophecy. How did he say that? She and Diego are like the sun and the moon. They cannot live without each other, although they cause each other pain.
🖌🎨 Oh Diego, the love of my life. I've come to terms with the fact that you need the admiration of other women. Maybe that's what happens when a person stands on the threshold of old age. I sometimes wished I could leave you. But I lack strength to leave definitively. I still feel the wound you inflicted on me when you got involved with Cristina. I forgave her, but not so much for you. I don't even know what stage our relationship is at. It's not a war, but I can't call it that. Maybe calm the gun.
🖌🎨 Why did she always let her take something away from painting again? Why was everything else more important than her art? Now she regretted the lost time bitterly.
🖌🎨 Oh Frida, to take care of me, I have to get sick. And to miss me, you have to leave me.
🖌🎨 I'm an abandoned woman, I'm thirty-two years old. My body is destroyed, full of scars after operations, my legs are missing my fingers, the upper half of my body is bound by a corset. Who else could fall in love with such a disfigured body?