- Francisco de Goya: [to Amelia] If I was twenty years younger, I would be hopelessly in love with you.
- Amelia Folch: This is how it has always happened and this is how it will continue to happen in this unjust country, the intelligent people end up divided into a thousand internal struggles; the audacious, in front of the firing squad; the uprightness man, in exile and the innocent, in misery.