I'll never fall in love again... it's like having two souls at the same time.

He was healthier than the rest of us, but when you listened with the stethoscope you could hear the tears bubbling inside his heart.

and it was always without pretensions of loving or being loved although always in the hope of finding something that resembled love but without the problems of love.

Unfortunately many young writers are more concerned with fame than with their own work... It's much more important to write than to be written about.

[The captain] looked at Florentino Ariza, his invincible power, his intrepid love and was overwhelmed by the belated suspicion that it is life, more than death, that has no limits.

They were so close to each other that they preferred death to separation.

It had to teach her to think of love as a state of grace: not the means to anything but the alpha and omega, an end it itself.