"It is very strange that the years teach us patience - that the shorter our time, the greater our capacity for waiting.
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— Elizabeth Taylor

"Childhood isn't just those years. It's also the opinions you form about them afterward. That's why our childhoods are so long."
— Kim Stanley Robinson (Green Mars)

""I never knew until that moment how bad it could hurt to lose something you never really had.""
— 'The Wonder Years'

"He thought about his people without sentimentalily, with a strick closing of his accounts with life, beginning to understand how much he really loved the people he hated the most."
— Gabriel García Márquez

"Pictures that don't make sense are magic. they hold balls of light covered in millions of spells swirled into a cell."
— Alexa Kitchen

"It was then that she realized that the yellow butterflies preceded the appearances of Mauricio Babilonia."
— Gabriel García Márquez

"Both described at the same time how it was always March there and always Monday, and then they understood that Jose Arcadio Buendia was not as crazy as the family said, but that he was the only one who had enough lucidity to sense the truth of the fact that time also stumbled and had accidents and could therefore splinter and leave an eternalized fragment in a room."
— Gabriel García Márquez

"I wasn't four years old, I didn't need to be watched over."
— Alysha Speer (Sharden)

"Death really did not matter to him but life did, and therefore the sensation he felt when they gave their decision was not a feeling of fear but of nostalgia."
— Gabriel Garcia-Marquez