The war is in the mountains,” he said. “For as long as I can remember, they have killed us in the cities with decrees, not with bullets.

I think just the opposite is true: love is an ideology for eternal militants, and the more misfortunes life tries to burden us with, the more essential love becomes.

With her Florentino Ariza learned what he had already experienced many times without realizing it: that one can be in love with several people at the same time, feel the same sorrow with each, and not betray any of them. Alone in the midst of the crowd on the pier, he said to himself in a flash of anger: 'My heart has more rooms than a whorehouse.

People spend a lifetime thinking abouthow they would really like to live. I asked my friends and no one seems to know very clearly. To me, it's very clear now. I wish my life could have been like the years when I was writing 'Love in the Time of Cholera.'

The woman let out an expansive laugh that resounded through the house like a spray of broken glass.

He pleaded so much that he lost his voice. His bones began to fill with words.

This was his world, he said to himself, the sad, oppressive world that God had provided for him, and he was responsible to it.