Leon Blattler

“When I wake up," he said, "remind me that I'm going to marry her.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, Crónica de una muerte anunciada

“Perhaps all men were moved against their will. A man ordered his life, and then an obscurity of circumstance sent him down a road that was not of his own desire or choosing. Something beyond a man’s immediate choice and will reached through the earth and stirred him. He did not see how any man might escape it.”
― Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, South Moon Under

“Friendship depends on interlocking time, place, and state of mind.”
― E.L. Konigsburg, Silent to the Bone

“My father’s voice is so loud my mother often jokes that he doesn’t need to make phone calls, he can just shout.”
― Malala Yousafzai, I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban