..the heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good, and [that] thanks to this artifice we manage to endure the burden of the past - Gabriel García Márquez

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.

أجيبيه بنعم حتي ولو كنت تموتين فزعا، حتي ولو ندمتِ فيما بعد، لأنك على أية حال ستندمين طوال حياتك ان أنتِ أجبته بلا.

Santiago Nasar had often told me that the smell of closed-in flowers had an immediate relation to death for him.