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

There is always something left to love.

nothing in this world was more difficult than love.

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.

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

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

It had to be a mad dream, one that would give her the courage she would need to discard the prejudices of a class that had not always been hers but had become hers more than anyone’s. It had to teach her to think of love as a state of grace: not the means to anything but the alpha and omega, an end in itself.

With her Florentino Ariza learned what he had already experienced many times without realizing it: that one can be in love with several people at the same time, feel the same sorrow with each, and not betray any of them. Alone in the midst of the crowd on the pier, he said to himself in a flash of anger: 'My heart has more rooms than a whorehouse.

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