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“Before reaching the final line, however, he had already understood that he would never leave that room, for it was foreseen that the city of mirrors (or mirages) would be wiped out by the wind and exiled from the memory of men at the precise moment
when Aureliano Babilonia would finish deciphering the parchments, and that everything written on them was unrepeatable since time immemorial and forever more, because races condemned to one hundred years of solitude did not have a second opportunity on earth.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude

“The human brain can only be stretched so far before it breaks.”
― Erin Bowman, Taken

“Second chances are not the same as forgiveness.”
― Erin Bowman, Taken

“You could be knocked down a peg or two.”
… “Baby, I’m so far up the latter there aren’t any pegs under me to be knocked down.
“Wow,” she said. “That’s a new one.”
“You loved it.”
― Jennifer L. Armentrout, Origin