Elsinore Martinelli Quotes

“When your children were dying, you did anything to save them, even walk over mountains and across deserts.”

“He’d made her feel more beautiful in one minute than the rest of the world had in twenty-five years.”

“I came west in search of a better life, but my American dream was turned into a nightmare by poverty and hardship and greed.”

“Life is tough. You need to be tougher or it will turn you inside out.”

“There was a pain that came with constant disapproval; a sense of having lost something unnamed, unknown.”

“She knew now what she hadn’t known before, hadn’t even suspected: she would do anything, suffer anything, to be loved, even if it was just for a night.”