“They looked like two children," she told me. And that thought frightened her, because she'd always felt that only children are capable of everything.”

— Gabriel García Márquez , book Chronicle of a Death Foretold

Source: Chronicle of a Death Foretold

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Colombian writer 1927–2014

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“She thought of something her mother had told her when she'd finally broken up with one of her most dysfunctional boyfriends.”

Holly Black (1971) American children's fiction writer

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“Diane felt the thread of connection between her and Danny drawn out infinitely thin, until it broke with a hurt to her heart she'd known she'd have to feel, but worse than she thought it would be.”

John Crowley book Four Freedoms

Part Four, Chapter 2
Four Freedoms (2009)
Context: She couldn't see that, though, because the haze out at sea erased the ship long before it could beyond the horizon, drawing after it the other ships. Diane felt the thread of connection between her and Danny drawn out infinitely thin, until it broke with a hurt to her heart she'd known she'd have to feel, but worse than she thought it would be.