This soup tastes like windows

He always considered death an unavoidable professional hazard.

Sex is the consolation you have when you can't have love.

It was also her nature that caused her letters to avoid emotional pitfalls and confine themselves to relating the events of her daily life in the utilitarian style of a ship's log. In reality they were distracted letters, intended to keep the coals alive without putting her hand in the fire, while Florentino Ariza burned himself alive in every line.

When you have a healthy appetite there is no such thing as bad bread.

...and the cries of the birds and the uproar of the monkeys became more and more remote, and the world became eternally sad. The men on the expedition felt overwhelmed by their most ancient memories in that paradise of dampness and silence, going back to before original sin, as their boots sank into pools of steaming oil and their machetes destroyed bloody lilies and golden salamanders.

This was his world, he said to himself, the sad, oppressive world that God had provided for him, and he was responsible to it.