Maíra

“This was his world, he said to himself, the sad, oppressive world that God had provided for him, and he was responsible to it.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera

“Maybe when people longed for a thing that bad the longing made them trust in anything that might give it to them.”
― Carson McCullers, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

“A person is, among all else, a material thing, easily torn and not easily mended.”
― Ian McEwan, Atonement

“his examination revealed that he had no fever, no pain anywhere, and that his only concrete feeling was an urgent desire to die. All that was needed was shrewd questioning...to conclude once again that the symptoms of love were the same as those of cholera.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera