"No matter what, nobody can take away..." - Quote by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“He who awaits much can expect little.”

“For a week I did not take off my mechanic's coverall day or night I did not bathe or shave or brush my teeth because love taught me too late that you groom yourself for someone you dress and perfume yourself for someone and I'd never had anyone to do that for.”

“Take advantage of it now, while you are young, and suffer all you can, because these things don't last your whole life.”

“The next thing most like living one's life over again seems to be a recollection of that life, and to make that recollection as durable as possible by putting it down in writing.”

“There was a little corner of his mind that was still his own, and light came through it, as though a chink in the dark: light out of the past. It was actually pleasant, I think, to hear a kindly voice agin, bringing up memories of wind, and trees, and sun on the grass, and such forgotten things.”

“It is out of reality that the most peculiar tale of all is born ... Some call me the Elder Granny, others - the Dryad, but my real name is Memory. It is I who sits on a tree that keeps on growing, and growing, it is I who reminisces and tells stories.”

“In my experience, previously counted chickens never do hatch.”

“What an immense impression Paris made upon me. It is the most extraordinary place in the world!”

“It is important early in life to acquire the power of reading sense wherever you happen to be.”