Aliya

“Tell him yes. Even if you are dying of fear, even if you are sorry later, because whatever you do, you will be sorry all the rest of your life if you say no.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera

“Puisque c'est ainsi. Puisque le temps sépare ceux qui s'aiment et que rien ne dure.
Ce que nous vivions là, et nous en étions conscients tous les quatre, c'était un peu de rab. Un sursis, une parenthèse, un moment de grâce. Quelques heures volées aux autres...
Pendant combien de temps aurions-nous l'énergie de nous arracher ainsi du quotidien pour faire le mur? Combien de permissions la vie nous accorderait-elle encore? Combien de pieds de nez? Combien de petites grattes? Quand allions-nous nous perdre et comment les liens se distendraient-ils?
Encore combien d'années avant d'être vieux?”
― Anna Gavalda, L'Échappée belle

“they no longer felt like newlyweds, and even less like belated lovers. It was as if they had leapt over the arduous calvary of conjugal life and gone straight to the heart of love. They were together in silence like an old married couple wary of life, beyond the pitfalls of disillusion: beyond love. For they had lived together long enough to know that love was always love, anytime and anyplace, but it was more solid the closer it came to death.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera

“Fermina, he said, I have waited for this opportunity for more than half a century, to repeat to you once again my vow of eternal fidelity and everlasting love.”
― Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera