“the world isn't what it once was because there aren't many men like you left.”

“The only Virgos left in the world are people like you who were born in August.”

“The truth is that Dr. Juvenal Urbino's suit had never been undertaken in the name of love, and it was curious, to say the least, that a militant Catholic like him would offer her only worldly goods: security, order, happiness, contiguous numbers that, once they were added together, might resemble love, almost be love. But they were not love, and these doubts increased her confusion, because she was also not convinced that love was really what she most needed to live.”

“He could not understand why he had needed so many words to explain what he felt in war because one was enough: fear.~Jose Aracadio Segundo BuendiaAfter the second banana slaughter ”

“She likes to try everything, out of curiosity, but she'll be sorry if she isn't guided by her heart.”

“Age isn't how old you are but how old you feel.”

“Until you're about the age of twenty you read everything, and you like it simply because you are reading it. then between twenty and thirty you pick up what you want, and you read the best, you read all the great works.after that you sit and wait for them to be written. But you know the least know, the least famous writers, they are the better ones.”