Alex Marquez

“He recognized her despite the uproar, through his tears of unrepeatable sorrow at dying without her, and he looked at her for the last and final time with eyes more luminous, more grief-stricken, more grateful than she had ever seen them in half a century of a shared life, and he managed to say to her with his last breath: “Only God knows how much I loved you”
― Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Love in the Time of Cholera

“...an urge, a need, a passionate yearning to share the warmth with the one person left for him to love.”
― Lois Lowry, The Giver

“As I kissed her the heat of her body increased, and it exhaled a wild, untamed fragrance.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, Memories of My Melancholy Whores

“The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.”
― John Muir