Lost in the solitude of his immense power, he began to lose direction.

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

The woman let out an expansive laugh that resounded through the house like a spray of broken glass.

...The girl raised her eyes to see who was passing by the window, and that casual glance was the beginning of a cataclysm of love that still had not ended half a century later.

Time was not passing...it was turning in a circle.

[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.

It was then that she realized that the yellow butterflies preceded the appearances of Mauricio Babilonia.