A true friend is the one who holds your hand and touches your heart.

Carmelia Montiel, a twenty-year-old virgin, had just bathed in orange-blossom water and was strewing rosemary leaves on Pilar Ternera's bed when the shot rang out. Aureliano José had been destined to find with her the happiness that Amaranta had denied him, to have seven children, and to die in her arms of old age, but the bullet that entered his back and shattered his chest had been directed by a wrong interpretation of the cards.

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

Love becomes greater and nobler in calamity.

It was a lone voice in the middle of the ocean, but it was heard at great depth and great distance.

Disbelief is more resistant than faith because it is sustained by the senses.

Humanity, like armies in the field, advances at the speed of the slowest.