He spent six hours examining things, trying to find a difference from their appearance on the previous day in the hope of discovering in them some change that would reveal the passage of time.

I think just the opposite is true: love is an ideology for eternal militants, and the more misfortunes life tries to burden us with, the more essential love becomes.

Once again she shuddered with the evidence that time was not passing, as she had just admitted, but that it was turning in a circle.

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.

One can be in love with several people at the same time, feel the sorrow with each, and not betray any of them.

Even when the winds of misfortune blow, amazing things can still happen.

He pleaded so much that he lost his voice. His bones began to fill with words.