كانت تقابله دوما دون الادعاء بأنها تحبه ودون مطالبته بان يحبها , ولكن على امل العثور على شيء يشبه الحب , انما دون مشاكل الحب ! - Gabriel García Márquez

The truth is I'm getting old, I said. We already are old, she said with a sigh. What happens is that you don't feel it on the inside, but from the outside everybody can see it.

and realized that death was not only a permanent probability, as he had always believed, but an immediate reality.

He said that people who loved [animals] to excess were capable of the worst cruelties toward human beings. He said that dogs were not loyal but servile, that cats were opportunists and traitors, that peacocks were heralds of death, that macaws were simply decorative annoyances, that rabbits fomented greed, that monkeys carried the fever of lust, and that roosters were damned because they had been complicit in the three denials of Christ.