Tell him yes. Even if you are dying of fear, even if you are sorry later, because whatever you do, you will be sorry all the rest of your life if you say no.

Each man is master of his own death, and all that we can do when the time comes is to help him die without fear of pain.

He soon acquired the forlorn look that one sees in vegetarians.

Don't struggle so much, the best things happen when not expected.

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

Fame is very agreeable, but the bad thing is that it goes on 24 hours a day.

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.