Horses frighten me as much as chickens do,’ he said. ‘That is too bad, because lack of communication with horses has impeded human progress,’ said Abrenuncio. ‘If we ever broke down the barriers, we could produce the centaur.

With her Florentino Ariza learned what he had already experienced many times without realizing it: that one can be in love with several people at the same time, feel the same sorrow with each, and not betray any of them. Alone in the midst of the crowd on the pier, he said to himself in a flash of anger: 'My heart has more rooms than a whorehouse.

It is a triumph of life that old people lose their memories of inessential things.

She likes to try everything, out of curiosity, but she'll be sorry if she isn't guided by her heart.

You can't eat hope,' the woman said. You can't eat it, but it sustains you,' the colonel replied.

the bells of glory that announced to the world the good news that the uncountable time of eternity had come to an end

Do not allow me to forget you