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“Spend your money on the things money can buy. Spend your time on the things money can’t buy.”
― Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

“I’ll have plenty of time to rest when I die, but this eventuality is not yet part of my plans.”
― Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera

“He was still too young to know that the heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good, and that thanks to this artifice we manage to endure the burden of the past.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera

“Tell him yes. Even if you are dying of fear, even if you are sorry later, because whatever you do, you will be sorry all the rest of your life if you say no.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera

“Amputees suffer pains, cramps, itches in the leg that is no longer there. That is how she felt without him, feeling his presence where he no longer was.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera

“With her Florentino Ariza learned what he had already experienced many times without realizing it: that one can be in love with several people at the same time, feel the same sorrow with each, and not betray any of them. Alone in the midst of the crowd on the pier, he said to himself in a flash of anger: 'My heart has more rooms than a whorehouse.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera

“Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera

“Humanity, like armies in the field, advances at the speed of the slowest.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera

“his examination revealed that he had no fever, no pain anywhere, and that his only concrete feeling was an urgent desire to die. All that was needed was shrewd questioning...to conclude once again that the symptoms of love were the same as those of cholera.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera

“One could be happy not only without love, but despite it.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera

“The people one loves should take all their things with them when they die.”
― Gabriel Garcia Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera

“He took something every hour, always in secret, because in his long life as a doctor and teacher he had always opposed prescribing palliatives for old age: it was easier for him to bear other people’s pains than his own.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera

“Neither could have said if their mutual dependence was based on love or convenience, but they had never asked the question with their hands on their hearts because both had always preferred not to know the answer.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera

“wisdom comes to us when it can no longer do any good.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera

“Fermina Daza sat next to her husband, as she alsways did, for fear he would fall asleep during the meal or spill soup on his lapel.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera

“It was the year they fell into devastating love. Neither one could do anything except think about the other, dream about the other, and wait for letters with the same impatience they felt when they answered them.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera

“He was still too young to know that the heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good, and that thanks to this artifice we manage to endure the burden of the past. But when he stood at the railing of the ship... only then did he understand to what extent he had been an easy vicitim to the charitible deceptions of nostalgia. ”
― Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“That is how they were: they spent their lives proclaiming their proud origins, the historic merits of the city, the value of its relics, its heroism, its beauty, but they were blind to the decay of the years.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera

“What worried Dr. Urbino most about dying was the solitary life Fermina Daza would lead without him.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera

“He looked at himself for a moment in the carriage mirror and saw that his image, too, was still thinking about Fermina Daza.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera

“[F]rom the time she awoke at six in the morning until she turned out the light in the bedroom, Fermina Daza devoted herself to killing time. Life was imposed on her from outside.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera

“He would remember it always, as he remembered everything that happened during that period, through the rarified lenses of his misfortunes.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera

“It was always without pretensions of loving or being loved, although always in the hope of finding something that resembled love, but without the problems of love.”
― Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera

“He was aware he did not love her. He had married her because he liked her haughtiness, her seriousness, her strength, and also because of some vanity on his part, but as she kissed him for the first time he was sure there would be obstacle to their inventing true love.”
― Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera

“He has hungry eyes like a crocodile. Watching from the banks of the river he devours one half-naked woman, then the next.”
― Sheena Patel, I'm a Fan

“Everybody cannot be calm. To be calm is a luxury!”
― Angie Cruz, How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water

“Happiness is usually well-deserved.”
― Alexander McCall Smith, The Private Life of Spies and The Exquisite Art of Getting Even: Stories of Espionage and Revenge

“Feeling to blame for someone's illness does not help you to keep your temper, or keep your patience with the medics, or stop you from crying when you are in a queue to talk to your bank about your medium to longterm borrowing requirements; and your phone runs out of credit. Feeling to blame makes you snappy and irritable, and inadequate, and defeated. None of those is on the list of desirable attributes in a parent.”
― Siân Hughes

“Just the act of looking at something can ruin it, I guess.”
― John Green, The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet

“This is what men do, they die, long before women. This is how it is meant to be, so that women can finally rest.)”
― Haley Tanner, Vaclav and Lena