Mya > Mya's Quotes

“Life is a full circle, widening until it joins the circle motions of the infinite.”
― Anais Nin

“She may be going to Hell, of course, but at least she isn't standing still”
― ee cummings

“Dream lofty dreams, and as you dream, so shall you become.”
― John Ruskin

“To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.”
― Oscar Wilde, An Ideal Husband

“Men always want to be a woman’s first love. That is their clumsy vanity. We women have a more subtle instinct about these things. What (women) like is to be a man’s last romance.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Time expands, then contracts, all in tune with the stirrings of the heart.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

“[F]or just one second, look at your life and see how perfect it is. Stop looking for the next secret door that is going to lead you to your real life. Stop waiting. This is it: there's nothing else. It's here, and you'd better decide to enjoy it or you're going to be miserable wherever you go, for the rest of your life, forever.”
― Lev Grossman, The Magicians

“That's what the world is , after all: an endless battle of contrasting memories.”
― Haruki Murakami, 1Q84

“Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.”
― Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore

“...when everything else fails, we communicate in the language of the stars”
― Isabel Allende, Eva Luna

“A true friend is the one who holds your hand and touches your heart”
― Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.”
― Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“A lie is more comfortable than doubt, more useful than love, more lasting than truth.”
― Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“She felt the abyss of disenchantment.”
― Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Love in the Time of Cholera

“Those who wanted to sleep, not from fatigue but because of the nostalgia of dreams...”
― Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

“To all, I would say how mistaken they are when they think that they stop falling in love when they grow old, without knowing that they grow old when they stop falling in love.”
― Gabriel Garcia Marquez (Author)

“Hildebranda had a universal conception of love, and she believed that whatever happened to one love affected all other loves throughout the world.”
― Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

“Nobody deserves your tears, but whoever deserves them will not make you cry.”
― Gabriel García Márquez

“Perhaps this is what the stories meant when they called somebody heartsick. Your heart and your stomach and your whole insides felt empty and hollow and aching.”
― Gabriel García Márquez

“It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.”
― Gabriel García Márquez

“To him she seemed so beautiful, so seductive, so different from ordinary people, that he could not understand why no one was as disturbed as he by the clicking of her heels on the paving stones, why no one else's heart was wild with the breeze stirred by the sighs of her veils, why everyone did not go mad with the movements of her braid, the flight of her hands, the gold of her laughter. He had not missed a single one of her gestures, not one of the indications of her character, but he did not dare approach her for fear of destroying the spell.”
― 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

“Then he made one last effort to search in his heart for the place where his affection had rotted away, and he could not find it.”
― Gabriel Garcia Marquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude

“It's enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude

“It was a love of perpetual flight.”
― Gabriel García Márquez

“She knew that he loved her above all else, more than anything in the world, but only for his own sake.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera

“And I am not one of those women who trips twice over the same stone.”
― Isabel Allende, Inés of My Soul

“You are the storyteller of your own life, and you can create your own legend, or not.”
― Isabel Allende

“My worst flaw is that I tell secrets, my own and everybody else's. ”
― Isabel Allende, My Invented Country: A Nostalgic Journey Through Chile

“Memory is fiction. We select the brightest and the darkest, ignoring what we are ashamed of, and so embroider the broad tapestry of our lives.”
― Isabel Allende, Portrait in Sepia