"When I wake up," he said, "remind me that I'm going to marry her." - Gabriel García Márquez

It had never occurred to him until then to think that literature was the best plaything that had ever been invented to make fun of people...

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.

"They looked like two children," she told me. And that thought frightened her, because she'd always felt that only children are capable of everything.