She knew that he loved her above all else, more than anything in the world, but only for his own sake.

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

He recognized her despite the uproar, through his tears of unrepeatable sorrow at dying without her, and he looked at her for the last and final time with eyes more luminous, more grief-stricken, more grateful than she had ever seen them in half a century of a shared life, and he managed to say to her with his last breath: “Only God knows how much I loved you

The anxiety of falling in love could not find repose except in bed.

[The captain] looked at Florentino Ariza, his invincible power, his intrepid love and was overwhelmed by the belated suspicion that it is life, more than death, that has no limits.

It's enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment.

It is life, more than death, that has no limits.