“He was still too young to know that the heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good, and that thanks to this artifice we manage to endure the burden of the past.”
― Love in the Time of Cholera
― Love in the Time of Cholera
“Dream, but don't sleep.”
― Breaking Night: A Memoir of Forgiveness, Survival, and My Journey from Homeless to Harvard
― Breaking Night: A Memoir of Forgiveness, Survival, and My Journey from Homeless to Harvard
“A way a lone a last a loved a long the riverrun, past Eve and Adam's, from swerve of shore to bend of bay, brings us by a commodius vicus of recirculation back to Howth Castle and Environs.”
― Finnegans Wake
― Finnegans Wake
“She would defend herself, saying that love, no matter what else it might be, was a natural talent. She would say: You are either born knowing how, or you never know.”
― Love in the Time of Cholera
― Love in the Time of Cholera
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