Via De Fant

“The oppressiveness of twilight filled the world.”
― Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez, Of Love and Other Demons

“Perhaps we, who are language animals, possess a song and story instinct; we need and move toward stories and songs not because we are taught to do so but because it is in our nature to need them.”
― Salman Rushdie, Languages of Truth: Essays 2003-2020

“Little by little she had been discovering the uncertainty of her husband's step, his mood changes, the gaps in his memory, his recent habit of sobbing while he slept, but she did not identify these as the unequivocal signs of final decay but rather as a happy return to childhood.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera

“the act of falling in love with a book or story changes us in some way, and the beloved tale becomes a part of our picture of the world, a part of the way in which we understand things and make judgments and choices in our daily lives.”
― Salman Rushdie, Languages of Truth: Essays 2003-2020