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“They probably thought they were not taking any side, but they were. Their silence was doing exactly that.”
― Elena Armas, The Spanish Love Deception

“She can also be a little defiant, and God knows she is stubborn as they come. But that’s all fire. Passion. That’s what makes her our Lina. Our little terremoto.” Our little earthquake. My dad’s eyes started shining under the light of the few lamps that had switched on as we entered the night. Something in my chest constricted. “And for a while there, it wasn’t like that. All that lightness faded out, and seeing my daughter going through something like that wasn’t easy. It broke our hearts. Then, she left, and even if we knew it was what she wanted and needed to do, our hearts broke a little further.”
― Elena Armas, The Spanish Love Deception

“And I know that even if something did break you—because that’s life and no one is invincible—you’d still put the pieces back together and remain the brightest thing I’d ever seen.”
― Elena Armas, The Spanish Love Deception

“When you find that kind of love, time stops mattering. Come what may, Lina, he would love her regardless of how long they had.”
― Elena Armas, The Spanish Love Deception