Manuela

“Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being.”
― Albert Camus, The Rebel

“Always. At every moment, asleep and awake, during the most sublime and most abject moments, Amaranta thought of Rebeca, because solitude had made a selection in her memory and had burned the dimming piles of nostalgic waste that life had accumulated in her heart, and had purified, magnified, and eternalized the others, the most bitter ones.”
― Gabriel Garcia Márquez

“Longing is the agony of the nearness of the distant.”
― Martin Heidegger

“how sad and bad and mad it was - but then, how it was sweet”
― Robert Browning