She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.

Always tell what you feel. Do what you think.

Injections are the best thing ever invented for feeding doctors.

Caribbean reality resembles the wildest imagination.

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

In that way the long-awaited visit, for which both had prepared questions and had even anticipated answers, was once more the usual everyday conversation.

A short time later, when the carpenter was taking measurements for the coffin, through the window they saw a light rain of tiny yellow flowers falling. They fell on the town all through the night in a silent storm, and they covered the roofs and blocked the doors and smothered the animals who slept outdoors. So many flowers fell from the sky that in the morning the streets were carpeted with a compact cushion and they had to clear them away with shovels and rakes so that the funeral procession could pass by.