She had never imagined that curiosty was one of the many masks of love .

and it was always without pretensions of loving or being loved although always in the hope of finding something that resembled love but without the problems of love.

With her Florentino Ariza learned what he had already experienced many times without realizing it: that one can be in love with several people at the same time, feel the same sorrow with each, and not betray any of them. Alone in the midst of the crowd on the pier, he said to himself in a flash of anger: 'My heart has more rooms than a whorehouse.

...The girl raised her eyes to see who was passing by the window, and that casual glance was the beginning of a cataclysm of love that still had not ended half a century later.

Just because someone does not love you as you want, it does not mean that you do not love with all his being.

It is not that the girl is unfit for everything, it is that she is not of this world.

Your first realization when you become an important person is that all day and all night, whatever the circumstances, people want to hear you talk about yourself.