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

That's maybe the reason he does so many things so that he will not have to think .

Gaston was not only a fierce lover, with endless wisdom and imagination, but he was also, perhaps, the first man in the history of the species who had made an emergency landing and had come close to killing himself and his sweetheart simply to make love in a field of violets.

It was also her nature that caused her letters to avoid emotional pitfalls and confine themselves to relating the events of her daily life in the utilitarian style of a ship's log. In reality they were distracted letters, intended to keep the coals alive without putting her hand in the fire, while Florentino Ariza burned himself alive in every line.

A person does not belong to a place until there is someone dead under the ground.

Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry.

He really had been through death, but he had returned because he could not bear the solitude.