“Everyone has three lives: a public life, a private life, and a secret life.”
“He could not understand why he had needed so many words to explain what he felt in war because one was enough: fear. ~Jose Aracadio Segundo Buendia After the second banana slaughter”
“It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.”
“Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability.”
“A person does not belong to a place until there is someone dead under the ground.”
“I don't have a method. All I do is read a lot, think a lot, and rewrite constantly. It's not a scientific thing.”
“For they had lived together long enough to know that love was always love, anytime and anyplace, but it was more solid the closer it came to death.”
“It is a triumph of life that old people lose their memories of inessential things.”
“I always had understood that dying of love was mere poetic license.”
“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 while raising them.”
“I can't think of any one film that improved on a good novel, but I can think of many good films that came from very bad novels.”
“nothing in this world was more difficult than love.”
“I’ve remained a virgin for you.”
“Then the writing became so fluid that I sometimes felt as if I were writing for the sheer pleasure of telling a story, which may be the human condition that most resembles levitation.”
“Blood circulated through her veins with the fluidity of a song that branched off into the most hidden areas of her body and returned to her heart, purified by love.”
“Then he made one last effort to search in his heart for the place where his affection had rotted away, and he could not find it.”
“I think just the opposite is true: love is an ideology for eternal militants, and the more misfortunes life tries to burden us with, the more essential love becomes.”
“She sensed it, saw my eyes wet with tears, and only then must have discovered I was no longer the man I had been, and I endured her glance with a courage I never thought I had.”
“I never had intimate friends, and the few who came close are in New York. By which I mean they're dead, because that's where I suppose condemned souls go in order not to endure the truth of their past lives.”
“Intrigued by that enigma, he dug so deeply into her sentiments that in search of interest he found love, because by trying to make her love him he ended up falling in love with her.”
“Just imagine, a cow on the balcony of the nation, what an awful thing, what a shitty country.”
“Thinking that it would console him, she took a piece of charcoal and erased the innumerable loves that he still owed her for, and she voluntarily brought up her own most solitary sadnesses so as not to leave him alone in his weeping.”
“More than mother and son, they were accomplices in solitude.”
“She had never imagined that curiosty was one of the many masks of love .”
“She knew that he loved her above all else, more than anything in the world, but only for his own sake.”
