Love is not a condition of the spirit but a sign of the zodiac.

It was the year they fell into devastating love. Neither one could do anything except think about the other, dream about the other, and wait for letters with the same impatience they felt when they answered them.

A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.

[The captain] looked at Florentino Ariza, his invincible power, his intrepid love and was overwhelmed by the belated suspicion that it is life, more than death, that has no limits.

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.

He shook my hand and said goodbye with a sentence that might have been either good advice or a threat: "Take good care of yourself.

Blood circulated through her veins with the fluidity of a song that branched off into the most hidden areas of her body and returned to her heart, purified by love.