Candela Quotes in Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (1988)

Candela: Men keep taking advantage of me. I always realize it when it's too late. Look how the Arab world treated me. I sure didn't deserve that.

PolicÃŒa I: What's going on?

Pepa: Nothing. Just discussing the lady's dress.

Candela: [in tears] It's awful!

Carlos: It's only a dress.

Candela: But it's awful!

Carlos: What happened?

Pepa: She fell asleep.

Candela: So suddenly?

Pepa: Yes. The strangest things can happen suddenly.

Pepa: You could have killed yourself!

Candela: That was the idea. I'm desperate.

Pepa: So am I, but I don't jump off terraces.

Candela: I didn't know where to go. I couldn't face my folks. It's bad enough that I became a model.

Candela: [Under the spell of the ghost of her dead husband José] He's calling me. But I don't want to go! He's chasing me. I'm too weak. What can I do?

Carmelo: Calm down. Calm down.

Candela: What can I do, Carmelo?

Carmelo: Let's leave this place.

Candela: And go where?

Carmelo: Anywhere far from here.

Candela: He'll follow us everywhere, to the ends of the earth... What can I do?