I have never done anything except write, but I don't possess the vocation or talents of a narrator, have no knowledge at all of the laws of dramatic composition, and if I have embarked upon this enterprise it is because I trust in the light shed by how much I have read in my life.

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.

Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability.

He really had been through death, but he had returned because he could not bear the solitude.

Life is not what one lived, but what One remembers and how One remembers it in order to recount it

This was when I heard that the first symptom of old age is when you begin to resemble your father.

In the plenitude of their relationship, Florentina Ariza asked himself which of the two was love: the turbulent bed or the peaceful Sunday afternoons, and Sara Noriega calmed him with the simple argument that love was everything they did naked. She said, 'Spiritual love from the waist up and physical love from the waist down.