Justice limps along, but gets there all the same.

It's much more important to write than to be written about.

How strange women are.

This was when I heard that the first symptom of old age is when you begin to resemble your father.

[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.

The adolescents of my generation, greedy for life, forgot in body and soul about their hopes for the future until reality taught them that tomorrow was not what they had dreamed, and they discovered nostalgia.

There had never been a death so foretold.