Leandro Apostol

“People learn to love their chains”
― George R.R. Martin

“The key to success is playing the hand you were dealt like it was the hand you wanted”
― Kaitlyn Walsh

“Those are rare who fall without becoming degraded; there is a point, moreover, at which the unfortunate and the infamous are associated and confounded in a single word, a fatal word, Les Misérables.”
― Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

“It was inevitable: the scent of bitter almonds always reminded him of the fate of unrequited love. Dr. Juvenal Urbino noticed it as soon as he entered the still darkened house where he has hurried on an urgent call to attend a case that for him had lost all urgency many years before. The Antillean refugee Jeremiah de Saint-Amour, disabled war veteran, photographer of children, and his most sympathetic opponent in chess, had escaped the torments of memory with the aromatic fumes of gold cyanide.”
― Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera