"I’ve remained a virgin for you...." - Quote by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“Jose Palacios, his oldest servant, found him floating naked with his eyes open in the purifying waters of his bath and thought he had drowned.”

“If men gave birth, they'd be less inconsiderate.”

“When one reaches absolute power, one loses total contact with reality.”

“Allie would love what you've done," he remarked. "She was always a softie when it came to things like this." I folded my hands in my lap. "I wish she could be there this weekend." Noah glanced at the stack of letters. I knew he was imagining Allie, and for a brief moment, he looked strangely younger. "So do I," he said.”

“There must be the... generating force of Love behind every effort destined to be successful.”

“Make the decision to love this day, this place, this moment, this special experience of life with the people around you. And there will be so very much to love.”

“Her heart-is given him, with all its love and truth. She would joyfully die with him, or, better than that, die for him. She knows he has failings, but she thinks they have grown up through his being like one cast away, for the want of something to trust in, and care for, and think well of.”

“In all the world, there is no heart for me like yours. In all the world, there is no love for you like mine.”

“I am here to love you, to hold you in my arms, to protect you.”