Mayra Padilla

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

“Nothing more exhilarating ... than saving yourself by the simple act of waking.”
― Junot Díaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

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

“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