“A person does not belong to a place until there is someone dead under the ground.”
Fuente: One Hundred Years of Solitude
“A person does not belong to a place until there is someone dead under the ground.”
Fuente: One Hundred Years of Solitude
“As I kissed her the heat of her body increased, and it exhaled a wild, untamed fragrance.”
Fuente: Memories of My Melancholy Whores
“The weak would never enter the kingdom of love.”
Fuente: Love in the Time of Cholera
“I always had understood that dying of love was mere poetic license.”
Fuente: Memories of My Melancholy Whores
“Today, when I saw you, I realized that what is between us is nothing more than an illusion.”
Fuente: Love in the Time of Cholera
“Tell him,' the colonel said, smiling, 'that a person doesn’t die when he should but when he can.”
Variante: A person doesn't die when he should but when he can.
Fuente: One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967), p. 241, said by Colonel Aureliano Buendía
“One never quite stops believing, some doubt remains forever".”
Fuente: Of Love and Other Demons
“Ah, me, if this is love, then how it torments.”
Fuente: Memories of My Melancholy Whores
“… the invincible power that has moved the world is unrequited, not happy love”
Variante: I became aware that the invincible power that has moved the world is unrequited, not happy, love.
Fuente: Memories of My Melancholy Whores
“Love is not a condition of the spirit but a sign of the zodiac.”
Fuente: Memories of My Melancholy Whores