Via De Fant

“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

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

“We mourn the blossoms of May because they are to wither; but we know that May is one day to have its revenge upon November, by the revolution of that solemn circle which never stops-- which teaches us in our height of hope, ever to be sober, and in our depths of desolation, never to despair.”
― Henry John Newman

“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