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She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed whil...more

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In journalism just one fact that is false prejudices the entire work. In contrast, in fiction one single fact that is true gives legitimacy to the ent...more

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The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.

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He walked out into a different city, one that was perfumed by the last dahlias of June, and onto a street out of his youth, where the shadowy widowsfr...more

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She felt so old, so worn out, so far away from the best moments of her life that she even yearned for those that she remembered as the worst… Her hear...more

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Don't let yourself die without knowing the wonder of fucking with love.

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four geological eras had to pass so that human beings would be able to outsing the birds and die for love.

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Her first reaction was one of hope, because his eyes were open and shining with a radiant light she had never seen there before. She prayed to God to ...more

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To all, I would say how mistaken they are when they think that they stop falling in love when they grow old, without knowing that they grow old when t...more

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nothing in this world was more difficult than love.

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Florentino Ariza never had anotheropportunity to see or talk to Fermina Daza alone in the many chanceencounters of their very long lives until fifty-o...more

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Hate and love are reciprocal passions.

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Never stop smiling not even when you're sad, someone might fall in love with your smile.

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The young doctor was disappointed: he had never had th eopportunity to study the effects of gold cyanide on a cadaver. Dr. Juvenal Urbino had been sur...more

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The worst way to miss someone is to have them sitting right next to you and know you can never have them.