Classic · Epic · Excerpt · Fiction · Historical · Historical Fiction · Historical Romance · Novel · Paraphrase · Passage · Quote · Romance · Russian Culture · Russian Literature

Boris Pasternak

You and I, it’s as though we have been taught to kiss in heaven and sent down to earth together, to see if we know what we were taught. — Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago  (Hallmark Editions; First Thus edition, January 1, 1967) Originally published January 1st 1965.

Rate this:

Classic · Columbian Culture · Columbian Literature · Contemporary · Excerpt · Fiction · Historical Fiction · Magical Realism · Novel · Paraphrase · Passage · Quote · Romance

Gabriel García Márquez

He was still too young to know that the heart’s memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good, and that thanks to this artifice we manage to endure the burden of the past. — Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera (Alfred A. Knopf, 1988)

Rate this:

American Culture · American Literature · Classic · Contemporary · Excerpt · Fiction · Mystery · Novel · Paraphrase · Passage · Quote · Romance · Suspense · Teen · Young Adult

Gregory Galloway

You have to pay attention, take the world in before you can accurately let it out again. There’s something to be said for silence, exile and cunning. – Gregory Galloway, As Simple As Snow (Putnam Adult; 1St Edition, March 3, 2005)

Rate this:

British Culture · British Literature · Classic · Excerpt · Fiction · Historical Fiction · Love · Novel · Paraphrase · Passage · Quote · Romance

Mary Webb

[W]e are all as full of echoes as a rocky wood–echoes of the past, reflex echoes of the future, and echoes of the soil (these last reverberating through our filmiest dreams, like the sound of thunder in a blossoming orchard). — Mary Webb, Gone to Earth (Constable, 1917)

Rate this:

Classic · Colombian Culture · Colombian Literature · Contemporary · Excerpt · Fiction · Historical Fiction · Literary Fiction · Magical Realism · Novel · Paraphrase · Passage · Quote · Romance

Gabriel García Márquez

But if they had learned anything together, it was that wisdom comes to us when it can no longer do any good. —  Gabriel García Márquez, Love In The Time of Cholera. (Vintage October 7, 2003) Originally published 1985.

Rate this: