She would say, "Someone should invent something to do with things you cannot use anymore but that you still cannot throw out.

She was lost in her longing to understand.

Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability.

Music is important for one's health.

Why do you insist on talking about what does not exist?

She knew that it would not be easy to submit to his miserliness, or the foolishness of his premature appearance of age, or his maniacal sense of order, or his eagerness to as for everything and give nothing at all in return, but despite all this, no man was better company because no other man in the world was so in need of love.

[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.