Dolores Quotes

“Here is a girl who is pretty in a quiet way. I bet she's had a very sad life.”
― Wally Lamb, She’s Come Undone

“For my nymphet I needed a diminutive with a lyrical lilt to it. One of the most limpid and luminous letters is "L". The suffix "-ita" has a lot of Latin tenderness, and this I required too. Hence: Lolita. However, it should not be pronounced as you and most Americans pronounce it: Low-lee-ta, with a heavy, clammy "L" and a long "o". No, the first syllable should be as in "lollipop", the "L" liquid and delicate, the "lee" not too sharp. Spaniards and Italians pronounce it, of course, with exactly the necessary note of archness and caress. Another consideration was the welcome murmur of its source name, the fountain name: those roses and tears in "Dolores." My little girl's heartrending fate had to be taken into account together with the cuteness and limpidity. Dolores also provided her with another, plainer, more familiar and infantile diminutive: Dolly, which went nicely with the surname "Haze," where Irish mists blend with a German bunny—I mean, a small German hare.”
― Vladimir Nabokov, Strong Opinions

“It seems strange to think, that what gives us most hope for the future should be called Dolores, said Margaret.”
― Elizabeth Gaskell, North and South

“You know what 'Dolores' means? It's Latin, means sadness. Our Lady of Sorrow. Why are you so sad?”
― Wally Lamb, She’s Come Undone

“Let me tell you something, my wife died for Tuesdays ago. Cancer of the colon. We were married forty-one years. Now you stop feeling sorry for yourself and lose some of that pork of yours. Pretty girl like you - you don't want to do this yourself.”
― Wally Lamb, She’s Come Undone

“Но ако са те наранили толкова жестоко, бягството няма да разреши проблема ти - в крайна сметка, където и да избягаш, ще отнесеш сърцето и главата със себе си.”
― Stephen King, Dolores Claiborne

“Sería más fácil si los muertos no dejaran sus pertenencias atrás, como cascarones vacíos de nautilus extinguidos; sería más sencillo si cualquier huella de su existencia fuera borrada con ellos, olvidando incluso sus nombres como los de los faraones del Antiguo Egipto.”
― Dolores Redondo, Todo esto te daré

“For the crown of our life as it closes
Is darkness, the fruit there of dust;
No thorns go as deep as the rose's,
And love is more cruel than lust.
Time turns the old days to derision,
Our loves into corpses or wives;
And marriage and death and division
Make barren our lives.”
― Algernon Charles Swinburne, Dolores: Notre-Dame Des Sept Douleurs

“В човешкия живот има случаи, когато минутите не съществуват, така че не можеш да ги преброиш.”
― Stephen King, Dolores Claiborne

“Sabía que el despertar de cada mañana seguiría siendo difícil, pero lo seria cada vez menos”
― Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera