Rosie

“see how elastic our swift prejudices grow when love once comes to bend them.”
― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

“Maybe I'll have a tumour like his someday. At first it will be a small but growing sphere that will branch out, growing larger in my stomach like a fetus. I will probably feel it when it starts to take motion, moving inward with the fury of a sleepwalking child, traveling through my intestines blindly -”
― Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez, Collected Stories

“Memory is the scribe of the soul”
― Aristotle

“Fear had absorbed her completely and remained there, fixed, tenacious, almost corporeal, as if it were some invisible person who had made up his mind not to leave the room. And the most upsetting part was that the fear had no justification at all, that it was a unique fear, without any reason, a fear just because.”
― Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez, Collected Stories