Gabriel García Márquez on Love

"Age has no reality except in the physical world. The essence of a human being is resistant to the passage of time. Our inner lives are eternal, which is to say that our spirits remain as youthful and vigorous as when we were in full bloom. Think of love as a state of grace, not the means to anything, but the alpha and omega. An end in itself."

"Gaston was not only a fierce lover, with endless wisdom and imagination, but he was also, perhaps, the first man in the history of the species who had made an emergency landing and had come close to killing himself and his sweetheart simply to make love in a field of violets."

"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"

"and the two of them loved each other for a long time in silence without making love again."

"Then he made one last effort to search in his heart for the place where his affection had rotted away, and he could not find it."

"Don't let yourself die without knowing the wonder of fucking with love."

"The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast."

"sex is the consolation you have when you can't have love"

"He is ugly and sad... but he is all love."

"But that afternoon he asked himself, with his infinite capacity for illusion, if such pitiless indifference might not be a subterfuge for hiding the torments of love."

"The anxiety of falling in love could not find repose except in bed."

"It was impossible to conceive of two creatures so different who got along so well and loved each other so much."

"Love in the time of cholera : contains description of the wreck of the San José at Cartagena de Indias"

"...a lie is more comfortable than doubt, more useful than love, more lasting than truth ..."

"… nothing was easy, least of all surviving Sunday afternoons without love."

"Because for you, quitting smoking would be like killing someone you love."

"Now you don't have to say yes because your heart is saying it for you."

"No matter what, nobody can take away the dances you've already had."

"Intrigued by that enigma, he dug so deeply into her sentiments that in search of interest he found love, because by trying to make her love him he ended up falling in love with her."

"In that Macondo forgotten even by the birds, where the dust and the heat had become so strong that it was difficult to breathe, secluded by solitude and love and by the solitude of love in a house where it was almost impossible to sleep because of the noise of the red ants, Aureliano, and Amaranta Úrsula were the only happy beings, and the most happy on the face of the earth."