Very well, I will marry you if you promise not to make me eat eggplant.

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.

The truth is that the first changes are so slow they pass almost unnoticed, and you go on seeing yourself as you always were, from the inside, but others observe you from the outside.

The adolescents of my generation, greedy for life, forgot in body and soul about their hopes for the future until reality taught them that tomorrow was not what they had dreamed, and they discovered nostalgia.

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

When you have a healthy appetite there is no such thing as bad bread.

The only regret I will have in dying is if it is not for love.