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

I’ve remained a virgin for you.

What does he say?' he asked. 'He’s very sad,’ Úrsula answered, ‘because he thinks that you’re going to die.' 'Tell him,' the colonel said, smiling, 'that a person doesn’t die when he should but when he can.

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

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

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

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