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.
Gabriel Garcia MarquezPerhaps this is what the stories meant when they called somebody heartsick. Your heart and your stomach and your whole insides felt empty and hollow and aching.
Gabriel Garcia MarquezNever stop smiling not even when you're sad, someone might fall in love with your smile.
Gabriel Garcia MarquezShe felt so old, so worn out, so far away from the best moments of her life that she even yearned for those that she remembered as the worstโฆ Her heart of compressed ash, which had resisted the most telling blows of daily reality without strain, fell apart with the first waves of nostalgia. The need to feel sad was becoming a vice as the years eroded her. She became human in her solitude.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez