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“Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven

“Before reaching the final line, however, he had already understood that he would never leave that room, for it was foreseen that the city of mirrors (or mirages) would be wiped out by the wind and exiled from the memory of men at the precise moment
when Aureliano Babilonia would finish deciphering the parchments, and that everything written on them was unrepeatable since time immemorial and forever more, because races condemned to one hundred years of solitude did not have a second opportunity on earth.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude

“Quoth the Raven, "Nevermore.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven

“Sometimes human places, create inhuman monsters.”
― Stephen King, The Shining

“Calm, lasting beauty comes only in dream, and this solace the world had thrown away when in its worship of the real it threw away the secrets of childhood and innocence.”
― H.P. Lovecraft, The Silver Key

“Lenore — For the rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore — Nameless”
― Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven

“-Dime, qué comemos.
El coronel necesitó setenta y cinco años -los setenta y cinco años de su vida, minuto a minuto- para llegar a ese instante. Se sintió puro, explícito, invencible, en el momento de responder:
-Mierda.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, El coronel no tiene quien le escriba

“Ningún lugar en la vida es más triste que una cama vacía.”
― Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez, El coronel no tiene quien le escriba

“True sorrow is as rare as true love.”
― Stephen King, Carrie

“We all create stories to protect ourselves.”
― Mark Z. Danielewski, House of Leaves

“The tears that heal are also the tears that scald and scourge.”
― Stephen King, The Shining

“(Versión en español) ¿Cómo voy a poder, cómo podría alguien, describir aquella extraña escena, su solemnidad, su lobreguez, su tristeza, su horror y, sin embargo, también su dulzura?”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula

“She did not know if her gift came from the lord of light or of darkness, and now, finally finding that she didn't care which, she wad overcome with almost indescribable relief, as if a huge weight, long carried, had slipped from her shoulders.”
― Stephen King, Carrie

“I hope your bacon burns.”
― Diana Wynne Jones , Howl’s Moving Castle

“She was certain that the Vicario brothers were not as eager to carry out the sentence as to find someone who would do them the favor of stopping them.”
― Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez, Chronicle of a Death Foretold

“If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
― Mark Twain

“He really had been through death, but he had returned because he could not bear the solitude.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude

“The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown”
― H.P. Lovecraft, Supernatural Horror in Literature

“Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, Eleonora

“I had been passing alone, on horseback, through a singularly dreary tract of country, and at length found myself, as the shades of evening drew on, within view of the melancholy House of Usher.”
― Edgar Allan Poe, The Fall of the House of Usher

“What fearful shapes and shadows beset his path amidst the dim and ghastly glare of a snowy night!”
― Frederick Simpson Coburn

“...time was not passing...it was turning in a circle...”
― Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude

“Once in a while, though, he could not help seeing how shallow, fickle, and meaningless all human aspirations are, and how emptily our real impulses contrast with those pompous ideals we profess to hold.”
― H.P. Lovecraft, The Silver Key

“No space of regret can make amends for one life's opportunity misused”
― Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol

“There had never been a death so foretold.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, Crónica de una muerte anunciada

“Es que murió sin entender su muerte.”
― Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez, Crónica de una muerte anunciada

“Wherever they might be they always remember that the past was a lie, that memory has no return, that every spring gone by could never be recovered, and that the wildest and most tenacious love was an ephemeral truth in the end.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude

“Though sympathy alone can't alter facts, it can help to make them more bearable.”
― Bram Stoker, Dracula

“We sometimes need to create unreal monsters and bogies to stand in for all the things we fear in our real lives.”
― Stephen King, The Shining

“Existen repliegues en el tiempo y en el espacio, en la fantasía y en la realidad, que sólo un soñador puede adivinar...”
― H.P. Lovecraft, The Silver Key