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“This is your life and its ending one moment at a time.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

“It's not love or anything, but I think I like you, too.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

“The girl is infectious human waste, and she's confused and afraid to commit to the wrong thing and so she won't commit to anything.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

“A moment it the most you can ever expect from perfection”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

“Whenever you feel like criticizing any one...just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Things are sweeter when they're lost. I know--because once I wanted something and got it. It was the only thing I ever wanted badly, Dot, and when I got it it turned to dust in my hand.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned

“There are all kinds of love in this world but never the same love twice.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald

“...and for a moment I thought I loved her. But I am slow-thinking and full of interior rules that act as brakes on my desires”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

“Experience is the name so many people give to their mistakes.”
― Francis Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise

“I am a woman and my business is to hold things together.

My business is to tear them apart.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night

“She was beautiful - but especially she was without mercy.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned

“Beauty and love pass, I know... Oh, there's sadness, too. I suppose all great happiness is a little sad. Beauty means the scent of roses and then the death of roses”
― F Scott Fitzgerald

“You are the loveliest thing that I have ever known.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald

“You remind me of a smoked cigarette.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, Flappers and Philosophers

“Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead. After that my own rule is to let everything alone.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

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

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

“All human beings have three lives: public, private, and secret.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, Gabriel García Márquez: a Life

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

“لقد قال لها في أحد الأيام شيئا لم تستطع تصوره:إن المبتورين يحسون آلاما وخدرا ودغدغة في أرجلهم التي ماعادوا يمتلكونها. وهذا ماشعرت به هي من دونه.. كانت تشعر بوجوده حيث لم يعد له وجود.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera

“كان ما يزال شـابا لا يعرف أن ذاكرة القلب تمحو كل الذكريات السيئة و تُضخم الذكريات الطيبة.. و أننا بفضل هذه الخدعة نتمكن من تحمل الماضي.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera

“Old people, with other old people, are not so old.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera

“It's not always necessary to be strong, but to feel strong.”
― Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild

“Happiness [is] only real when shared”
― Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild

“I read somewhere... how important it is in life not necessarily to be strong, but to feel strong... to measure yourself at least once.”
― Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild

“So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservatism, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality nothing is more dangerous to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future. The very basic core of a man’s living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.”
― Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild

“In a child's eyes, a mother is a goddess. She can be glorious or terrible, benevolent or filled with wrath, but she commands love either way. I am convinced that this is the greatest power in the universe.”
― N.K. Jemisin, The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms

“When I grow up I want to be an old woman.”
― Michelle Shocked

“It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything.”
― Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

“If a man hasn't what's necessary to make a woman love him, it's his fault, not hers.”
― W. Somerset Maugham, The Painted Veil