Sex is one's consolation when love is not enough

The only Virgos left in the world are people like you who were born in August.

and it was always without pretensions of loving or being loved although always in the hope of finding something that resembled love but without the problems of love.

The heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good.

Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry. With both you are working with reality, a material just as hard as wood.

Her first reaction was one of hope, because his eyes were open and shining with a radiant light she had never seen there before. She prayed to God to give him at least a moment so that he would not go without knowing how much she had love him despite all their doubts, and she felt an irresistible longing to begin life with him over again so that they could say what they had left unsaid and do everything right that they had done badly in the past. But she had to give in to the intransigence of death. (Love in the Time of Cholera)

It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.