The fact is that being seductive is an addiction that can never be satisfied.

The people one loves should take all their things with them when they die.

Nothing resembles a person as much as the way he dies.

He is ugly and sad, but he is all love.

The year I turned ninety, I wanted to give myself the gift of a night of wild love with an adolescent virgin.

My most important problem was destroying the lines of demarcation that separate what seems real from what seems fantastic.

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.