Candela

“- La ilusión no se come - dijo ella.
- No se come, pero alimenta - replicó el coronel.”
― Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez, El coronel no tiene quien le escriba

“Am I in love? --yes, since I am waiting. The other one never waits. Sometimes I want to play the part of the one who doesn't wait; I try to busy myself elsewhere, to arrive late; but I always lose at this game. Whatever I do, I find myself there, with nothing to do, punctual, even ahead of time. The lover's fatal identity is precisely this: I am the one who waits.”
― Roland Barthes, A Lover's Discourse: Fragments

“Se ama para dejar de amar y se deja de amar para empezar a amar a otros, o para quedarse solos, por un rato o para siempre. Ese es el dogma. El único dogma.”
― Alejandro Zambra, The Private Lives of Trees

“You wouldn't believe the kind of person I could become if you wanted it.”
― Franz Kafka, Letters to Felice