quotes from Love in the Time of Cholera
"Years later, when he tried to remember what the maiden idealized by the alchemy of poetry really was like, he could not distinguish her from the heartrending twilight of those times."
"'Take advantage of it now, while you are young, and suffer all you can,' she said to him, 'because these things don't last your whole life.'"
"Sometimes he went to the office without having slept, his hair in an uproar of love..."
"Love was more intense because it seems like a shipwreck."
"Florentino Ariza wrote everything with so much passion that even official documents seemed to be about love."
"In the space that he had occupied in her memory, she allowed a field of poppies to bloom."
"It was reasonable to think that the woman he loved most on earth, the one he had waited for from one century to the next without a sigh of disenchantment, might not have the opportunity to lead him by the arm... in order to help him reach the other side of death in safety."
"'My heart has more rooms than a whorehouse.'"
"The night he reiterated his love to Fermina Daze he had wandered aimlessly through the streets that had been devastated by the afternoon flood, asking himself in terror what he was going to do with the skin of the tiger he had just killed after having resisted its attacks for more than half a century."
"'Take advantage of it now, while you are young, and suffer all you can,' she said to him, 'because these things don't last your whole life.'"
"Sometimes he went to the office without having slept, his hair in an uproar of love..."
"Love was more intense because it seems like a shipwreck."
"Florentino Ariza wrote everything with so much passion that even official documents seemed to be about love."
"In the space that he had occupied in her memory, she allowed a field of poppies to bloom."
"It was reasonable to think that the woman he loved most on earth, the one he had waited for from one century to the next without a sigh of disenchantment, might not have the opportunity to lead him by the arm... in order to help him reach the other side of death in safety."
"'My heart has more rooms than a whorehouse.'"
"The night he reiterated his love to Fermina Daze he had wandered aimlessly through the streets that had been devastated by the afternoon flood, asking himself in terror what he was going to do with the skin of the tiger he had just killed after having resisted its attacks for more than half a century."