Shame has poor memory.

She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.

Freedom is often the first casualty of war.

Make no mistake: peaceful madmen are ahead of the future.

I always had understood that dying of love was mere poetic license.

we had made love without love, half-dressed most of the time and always in the dark so we could imagine ourselves as better than we were.

He could not understand why he had needed so many words to explain what he felt in war because one was enough: fear. ~Jose Aracadio Segundo Buendia After the second banana slaughter