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“It was as if they had leapt over the arduous cavalry of conjugal life and gone straight to the heart of love. They were together in silence like an old married couple wary of life, beyond the pitfalls of passion, beyond the brutal mockery of hope and the phantoms of disillusion: beyond love. For they had lived together long enough to know that love was always love, anytime and anyplace, but it was more solid the closer it came to death.”
― Love in the Time of Cholera
― Love in the Time of Cholera
“Very well, I will marry you if you promise not to make me eat eggplant.”
― Love in the Time of Cholera
― Love in the Time of Cholera
“When you are on the dancefloor, there is nothing to do but dance.”
― The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana
― The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana
“Be calm. God awaits you at the door.”
― Love in the Time of Cholera
― Love in the Time of Cholera
“Now he discovered that secret from which one never quite recovers, that even in the most perfect love one person loves less profoundly than the other. There may be two equally good, equally gifted, equally beautiful, but there may never be two that love one another equally well.”
― The Bridge of San Luis Rey
― The Bridge of San Luis Rey
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