The only regret I will have in dying is if it is not for love.

El mundo habrá acabado de joderse -dijo entonces- el día en que los hombres viajen en primera clase y la literatura en el vagón de carga.

I became aware that the invincible power that has moved the world is unrequited, not happy, love.

I have waited for this opportunity for more than half a century, to repeat to you once again my vow of eternal fidelity and everlasting love.

This was his world, he said to himself, the sad, oppressive world that God had provided for him, and he was responsible to it.

People spend a lifetime thinking abouthow they would really like to live. I asked my friends and no one seems to know very clearly. To me, it's very clear now. I wish my life could have been like the years when I was writing 'Love in the Time of Cholera.'

They looked like two children," she told me. And that thought frightened her, because she'd always felt that only children are capable of everything.