She knew that it would not be easy to submit to his miserliness, or the foolishness of his premature appearance of age, or his maniacal sense of order, or his eagerness to as for everything and give nothing at all in return, but despite all this, no man was better company because no other man in the world was so in need of love.

Fernanda, on the other hand, looked for it in vain along the paths of her everyday itinerary without knowing that the search for lost things is hindered by routine habits and that is why it is so difficult to find them.

You can't eat hope,' the woman said. You can't eat it, but it sustains you,' the colonel replied.

When I wake up," he said, "remind me that I'm going to marry her.

Tell him,' the colonel said, smiling, 'that a person doesn’t die when he should but when he can.

What does he say?' he asked. 'He’s very sad,’ Úrsula answered, ‘because he thinks that you’re going to die.' 'Tell him,' the colonel said, smiling, 'that a person doesn’t die when he should but when he can.

The fact is that being seductive is an addiction that can never be satisfied.