4 Quotes by Magda Szabó

Whatever love we receive always comes as a form of grace.

She told us as much about herself as she saw fit, but generally she said little, like a real mother whose past has become immaterial in her total concern for the future of her children.

As I listened I felt a dull numbness, like the effect of chloroform, rather than the primal, anarchic agony you usually feel when you encounter someone you have loved now turned to dust, in some object like a little bowl, and you are required to believe that it is still the same person who once smiled at you.

La única mortal que tenía la potestad para tocar aquella cerradura era yo, porque quien la había cerrado con llave me creía más a mí que al propio Creador, y yo misma me creía Dios en aquel instante fatal, un Dios prudente, bondadoso y justo. Nos hemos equivocado ambas; ella, que depositó toda su confianza en mí, y yo, que pequé de vanidad. De todas formas da igual, porque lo pasado, pasado está, y ya no tiene arreglo.