The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.

I don't have a method. All I do is read a lot, think a lot, and rewrite constantly. It's not a scientific thing.

a process of aging had taken place in him that was so rapid and critical that soon he was being treated as one of those useless great-grandfathers who wander about the bedroom like shades, dragging their feet, remembering better times aloud, and whom no one bother about or remembers really until the morning they find them dead in their bed.

If you love something - let. If it is yours - it will come back. I love you not because of who you are, but for who I am when I'm with you.

She would not shed a tear, she would not waste the rest of her years simmering in the maggot broth of memory.

Please allow me to wipe the slate clean. Age has no reality except in the physical world. The essence of a human being is resistant to the passage of time. Our inner lives are eternal, which is to say that our spirits remain as youthful and vigorous as when we were in full bloom. Think of love as a state of grace, not the means to anything, but the alpha and omega. An end in itself. Florentino Ariza, Love in the Time of Cholera

Sex is one's consolation when love is not enough