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“The longing was with him day and night, an incessant undefinable craving, like the sudden whim of a sick man for food and drink once tasted and long since forgotten. He could not see beyond the craving, or picture what it might lead to, for he was not conscious of any wish to speak to Madame Olenska or to hear her voice. He simply felt that if he could carry the vision of the spot of earth she walked on, and the way the sky and sea enclosed it, the rest of the world might seem less empty.”
― The Age of Innocence
― The Age of Innocence

“You are in every line I have ever read.”
― Great Expectations
― Great Expectations

“…In reality [hers] were distracted letters, intended to keep the coals alive without putting her hand in the fire, while Florentino Ariza burned himself alive in every line.”
― Love in the Time of Cholera
― Love in the Time of Cholera

“I am a dreamer. I know so little of real life that I just can’t help re-living such moments as these in my dreams, for such moments are something I have very rarely experienced. I am going to dream about you the whole night, the whole week, the whole year.”
― White Nights
― White Nights

“With the fierce temerity with which José Arcadio BuendÃa had crossed the mountains to find Macondo, with the blind pride with which Colonel Aureliano BuendÃa had undertaken his fruitless wars, with the mad tenacity with which Úrsula had watched over the survival of the line, Aureliano Segundo looked for Fernanda, without a single moment of respite.”
― One Hundred Years of Solitude
― One Hundred Years of Solitude
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