"I have waited for this opportunity for..." - Quote by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“Her nakedness was not absolute, for like Manet's _Olympia__, behind her ear she had a poisonous flower with orange petals, and she also wore a gold bangle on her right wrist and a necklace of tiny pearls. I imagined I would never see anything more exciting for as long as I lived, and today I can confirm that I was right.”

“The adolescents of my generation, greedy for life, forgot in body and soul about their hopes for the future until reality taught them that tomorrow was not what they had dreamed, and they discovered nostalgia.”

“The more transparent the writing, the more visible the poetry.”

“Love is a fault; so be it.”

“It is no non-violence if we merely love those that love us. It is non-violence only when we love those that hate us.”

“Why should the imagination of a manLong past his prime remember things that areEmblematical of love and war?”

“Feed on her damask cheek: she pined in thought, And with a green and yellow melancholy She sat like patience on a monument, Smiling at grief”

“Bring me a constant woman to her husband, One that ne'er dream'd a joy beyond his pleasure, And to that woman, when she has done most, Yet will I add an honour-a great patience.”

“When someone is impatient and says, 'I haven't got all day,' I always wonder, How can that be? How can you not have all day?”