That’s maybe the reason he does so many things so that he will not have to think .
She had the revelation one Sunday that while the other instruments played for everyone the violen played for her alone .
The weak would never enter the kingdom of love.
Santiago Nasar had often told me that the smell of closed-in flowers had an immediate relation to death for him.
How strange women are.
Why do you insist on talking about what does not exist?
The only everyday and eternal reality was love.
At some point, you no longer feel pain. Sensation disappears and reason is dulled, until you lose all grasp of time and place.
Give me a prejudice and I will move the world.
If you lie down in a village square hoping to capture a sea gull, you could stay there your whole life without succeeding. But a hundred miles from shore it’s different. Sea gulls have a highly developed instinct for self-preservation on land but at sea they’re very cocky.
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.
Even when the winds of misfortune blow, amazing things can still happen.
The world was reduced to the surface of her skin and her inner self was safe from all bitterness.
The first of the line is tied to a tree and the last is being eaten by the ants .
I plead youth as a mitigating circumstance.
When you have a healthy appetite there is no such thing as bad bread.
When one reaches absolute power, one loses total contact with reality.
She searched the truth with an anguish almost as great as her terrible fear of finding it .
Life is but a continual succession of opportunities for surviving.
I’ve remained a virgin for you.