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“The genius of Alba de Céspedes in this book is in shattering the illusion that writing is a place of refuge, and replacing it with the certainty that it is a place that always both pollutes and sabotages us.” As Valeria discovers: toward the end of the novel, she tells her daughter, “Save yourself, you who can do it.”
― Alba de Céspedes, Forbidden Notebook

“It's that hope for happiness that consumes a woman day after day, destroys her.”
― Alba de Céspedes, Forbidden Notebook

“Because if children can confess freely that they're bored with their parents, a mother who confesses she's bored with her children seems unnatural.”
― Alba de Céspedes, Forbidden Notebook