Maitland

“Your word of honor?” “The word of your enemy,” José Arcadio Buendía said. And he added in a bitter tone: “Because I must tell you one thing: you and I are still enemies.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude

“In a time haunted by drought, plague, and war, with no social or medical services available to the average person, with public literacy and the scientific method unheard of, skeptical thinking was rare.”
― Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark

“Thus they went on living in a reality that was slipping away, momentarily captured by words, but which would escape irremediably when they forgot the values of the written letters.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude

“just the accumulation of small moments that turn acquaintance into friendship.”
― Richard Osman, The Bullet That Missed