“Take advantage of it now, while you are young, and suffer all you can, because these things don't last your whole life.”
― Love in the Time of Cholera
― Love in the Time of Cholera
“There are two kinds of people in this world: Those who believe there are two kinds of people in this world and those who are smart enough to know better.”
― Still Life with Woodpecker
― Still Life with Woodpecker
“Of the Seven Dwarfs, the only one who shaved was Dopey. That should tell us something about the wisdom of shaving.”
― Skinny Legs and All
― Skinny Legs and All
“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
“Never underestimate how much assistance, how much satisfaction, how much comfort, how much soul and transcendence there might be in a well-made taco and a cold bottle of beer.”
― Jitterbug Perfume
― Jitterbug Perfume
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