Justice limps along, but gets there all the same.

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.

One could be happy not only without love, but despite it.

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

She searched the truth with an anguish almost as great as her terrible fear of finding it .

Florentina Ariza had kept his answer ready for fifty-three years, seven months and eleven days and nights. 'Forever,' he said.

a process of aging had taken place in him that was so rapid and critical that soon he was being treated as one of those useless great-grandfathers who wander about the bedroom like shades, dragging their feet, remembering better times aloud, and whom no one bother about or remembers really until the morning they find them dead in their bed.