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Iza's Ballad QUOTES

Iza's Ballad QUOTES

1 " She didn't stay a word until they reached the edge of the wood, then stopped and looked at him again and spoke very clearly as if she wanted to emphasize every word to him. 'Politics will be my life as long as I live, she said.

He knew it was crazy but at that moment he was sure he would marry her. "

― Magda Szabó , Iza's Ballad

2 " Maybe she was already dead and hadn’t noticed? Could a person die without being aware of it? "

― Magda Szabó , Iza's Ballad

3 " She looked at everything as though it had nothing to do with her. "

― Magda Szabó , Iza's Ballad

4 " Heaven was a long way off and offered no recompense. "

― Magda Szabó , Iza's Ballad

5 " Now that she was seventy-six, looking at the new headstone, she knew the dead really die and that there was nothing you could give them by way of commiseration, no sadness, no love. "

― Magda Szabó , Iza's Ballad

6 " As if ashamed of themselves, the clouds broke and bare trees began to tremble in the intensely bright unexpected sunlight: they looked as though they were gasping for air or exhausted after a furious dash. "

― Magda Szabó , Iza's Ballad

7 " Purtroppo i ricordi non si possono trasmettere in eredità a nessuno. "

― Magda Szabó , Iza's Ballad

8 " Can people get used to death? "

― Magda Szabó , Iza's Ballad

9 " Everything has changed,' the old woman thought. 'I can't tell what is what any more, only that nothing is as it was. "

― Magda Szabó , Iza's Ballad

10 " Niçin sevilen varlıkların yitirilmesi gerekiyor? "

― Magda Szabó , Iza's Ballad

11 " The poor woman believes that old people's pasts are the enemy. She has failed to notice how those pasts are explanations and values, the key to the present. "

― Magda Szabó , Iza's Ballad

12 " the weather was unusually cold again, as if March were at war with itself, bringing hard winter days to frustrate the promise of spring. "

― Magda Szabó , Iza's Ballad

13 " there was no point in hoping. "

― Magda Szabó , Iza's Ballad