“One minute of reconciliation is worth more than a whole life of friendship!”

“It is life, more than death, that has no limits.”

“one ages more and with more intensity in pictures than in reality.”

“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.”

“He repeated until his dying day that there was no one with more common sense, no stone cutter more obstinate, no manager more lucid or dangerous, than a poet.”

“A lie is more comfortable than doubt, more useful than love, more lasting than truth.”

“[The captain] looked at Florentino Ariza, his invincible power, his intrepid love and was overwhelmed by the belated suspicion that it is life, more than death, that has no limits.”