“The house became full of love. Aureliano expressed it in poetry that had no beginning or end. He would write it on the harsh pieces of parchment that Melquíades gave him, on the bathroom walls, on the skin of his arms, and in all of it Remedios would appear transfigured: Remedios in the soporific air of two in the afternoon, Remedios in the soft breath of the roses, Remedios in the water-clock secrets of the moths, Remedios in the steaming morning bread, Remedios everywhere and Remedios forever. La casa se llenó de amor. Aureliano lo expresó en versos que no tenían principio ni fin. Los escribía en los ásperos pergaminos que le regalaba Melquíades, en las paredes del baño, en la piel de sus brazos, y en todos aparecía Remedios transfigurada: Remedios en el aire soporífero de las dos de la tarde, Remedios en la callada respiración de las rosas, Remedios en la clepsidra secreta de las polillas, Remedios en el vapor del pan al amanecer, Remedios en todas partes y Remedios para siempre.”- Gabriel García Márquez

“José Arcadio Buendía paid them and put his hand on the ice and held it there for several minutes as his heart filled with fear and jubilation at the contact with mystery. Without knowing what to say, he paid ten reales more so that his sons could have that prodigious experience. Little José Arcadio refused to touch it. Aureliano, on the other hand, took a step forward and put his hand on it, withdrawing it immediately. "It's boiling," he exclaimed, startled. But his father paid no attention to him. Intoxicated by the evidence of the miracle, he forgot at that moment about the frustration of his delirious undertakings and Melquíades' body, abandoned to the appetite of the squids. He paid another five reales and with his hand on the cake, as if giving testimony on the holy scriptures, he exclaimed: "This is the great invention of our time." José Arcadio Buendía los pagó, y entonces puso la mano sobre el hielo, y la mantuvo puesta por varios minutos, mientras el corazón se le hinchaba de temor y de júbilo al contacto del misterio. Sin saber qué decir, pagó otros diez reales para que sus hijos vivieran la prodigiosa experiencia. El pequeño José Arcadio se negó a tocarlo. Aureliano, en cambio, dio un paso hacia adelante, puso la mano y la retiró en el acto. <<Está hirviendo>>, exclamó asustado. Pero su padre no le prestó atención. Embriagado por la evidencia del prodigio, en aquel momento se olvidó de la frustración de sus empresas delirantes y del cuerpo de Melquíades abandonado al apetito de los calamares. Pagó otros cinco reales, y con la mano puesta en el témpano, como expresando un testimonio sobre el texto sagrado, exclamó: -Este es el gran invento de nuestro tiempo.”- Gabriel García Márquez

“But real adventures, I reflected, do not happen to people who remain at home: they must be sought abroad”- James Joyce

“These fragments I have shored against my ruins”- T.S. Eliot

“There is an unchanging, silent life within every man that none knows but himself, and his unchanging silent life was his memory of Margaret Dirken. The barroom was forgotten and all that concerned it, and the things he saw most clearly were the green hillside, and the bog lake and the rushes about it, and the greater lake in the distance, and behind it the blue line of wandering hills.”- George Moore

“Then can I drown an eye, unused to flow, For precious friends hid in death's dateless night, And weep afresh love's long since canceled woe, And moan th' expense of many a vanished sight;”- William Shakespeare

“He who was living is now dead We who were living are now dying”- T.S. Eliot

“I think we are in rats’ alley Where the dead men lost their bones”- T.S. Eliot

“His life was gentle and the elements So mixed in him that nature might stand up And say to all the world "This was a man".”- William Shakespeare

“Always, Amory, amor andmore! Till always, thou lovest!”- James Joyce

“I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars, And the pismire is equally perfect, and a grain of sand, and the egg of the wren, And the tree-toad is a chef-d'œuvre for the highest, And the running blackberry would adorn the parlors of heaven, And the narrowest hinge in my hand puts to scorn all machinery, And the cow crunching with depress'd head surpasses any statue, And a mouse is miracle enough to stagger sextillions of infidels.”- Walt Whitman

“Redheaded women buck like goats”- James Joyce

“For it is as the air, invulnerable, And our vain blows malicious mockery.”- William Shakespeare

“And while I read, I sighed, for it seemed as if all joy had vanished from the world, never to be restored.”- Emily Brontë