The people one loves should take all their things with them when they die.

What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.

I’ve remained a virgin for you.

If God hadn't rested on Sunday, He would have had time to finish the world.

I plead youth as a mitigating circumstance.

Most critics don't realize that a novel like One Hundred Years of Solitude is a bit of a joke, full of signals to close friends; and so, with some pre-ordained right to pontificate they take on the responsibility of decoding the book and risk making terrible fools of themselves.

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.