Daniyal

“If I died now," he said, "you would hardly remember me when you are my age."
He said it for no apparent reason, and the angel of death hovered for a moment in the cool shadows of the office and flew out again through the window, leaving a trail of feathers fluttering in his wake, but the boy did not see them.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera

“Colonel Aureliano Buendia smiled at her the same way as when he had first seen her with the bandage on that remote morning when he had come back to Macondo condemned to death.
"How awful," he said, "the way time passes!”
― Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude

“Lost in the solitude of his immense power, he began to lose direction.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude

“When you die it's the same as if everybody else did too.”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Road