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

Please allow me to wipe the slate clean. Age has no reality except in the physical world. The essence of a human being is resistant to the passage of time. Our inner lives are eternal, which is to say that our spirits remain as youthful and vigorous as when we were in full bloom. Think of love as a state of grace, not the means to anything, but the alpha and omega. An end in itself. Florentino Ariza, Love in the Time of Cholera

Just as real events are forgotten, some that never were can be in our memories as if they happened.

This was his world, he said to himself, the sad, oppressive world that God had provided for him, and he was responsible to it.

nothing in this world was more difficult than love.

She would walk through the kitchen at any hour, whenever she was hungry, and put her fork in the pots and eat a little of everything without placing anything on a plate, standing in front of the stove, talking to the serving women, who were the only ones with whom she felt comfortable, the ones she got along with best.

There is always something left to love.