Mayra Padilla

“Love is so short, forgetting is so long.”
― Pablo Neruda, Love: Ten Poems

“Do work that matters. Vale la pena”
― Gloria E. Anzaldúa

“Gaston was not only a fierce lover, with endless wisdom and imagination, but he was also, perhaps, the first man in the history of the species who had made an emergency landing and had come close to killing himself and his sweetheart simply to make love in a field of violets.”
― Gabriel Garcia Marquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude

“She felt the abyss of disenchantment.”
― Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Love in the Time of Cholera