“You do not have to do this, my little serpent,” he said softly. “I realize only now that perhaps I never told you that.”
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“The oppressiveness of twilight filled the world.”
― Of Love and Other Demons
― Of Love and Other Demons

“If they had learned anything together, it was that wisdom comes to us when it can no longer do any good.”
― Love in the Time of Cholera
― Love in the Time of Cholera

“the act of falling in love with a book or story changes us in some way, and the beloved tale becomes a part of our picture of the world, a part of the way in which we understand things and make judgments and choices in our daily lives.”
― Languages of Truth: Essays 2003-2020
― Languages of Truth: Essays 2003-2020

“The Enemy makes better use of our intelligence than of our errors.”
― Of Love and Other Demons
― Of Love and Other Demons

“Little by little she had been discovering the uncertainty of her husband's step, his mood changes, the gaps in his memory, his recent habit of sobbing while he slept, but she did not identify these as the unequivocal signs of final decay but rather as a happy return to childhood.”
― Love in the Time of Cholera
― Love in the Time of Cholera
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