“Only God knows how much I love you.”
― Love in the Time of Cholera
― Love in the Time of Cholera
“Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud.”
― Letter to My Daughter
― Letter to My Daughter
“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.”
― Love in the Time of Cholera
― Love in the Time of Cholera
“I have always loved Naoko, and I still love her. But there is a decisive finality to what exists between Midori and me. It has an irresistible power that is bound to sweep me into the future. What I feel for Naoko is a tremendously quiet and gentle and transparent love, but what I feel for Midori is a wholly different emotion. It stands and walks on its own, living and breathing and throbbing and shaking me to the roots of my being.”
― Norwegian Wood
― Norwegian Wood
“He recognized her despite the uproar, through his tears of unrepeatable sorrow at dying without her, and he looked at her for the last and final time with eyes more luminous, more grief-stricken, more grateful than she had ever seen them in half a century of a shared life, and he managed to say to her with his last breath: “Only God knows how much I loved you”
― Love in the Time of Cholera
― Love in the Time of Cholera
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