) As usual...the quotes that spoke:"...she felt an irresistible longing to begin life with him over again so that they could say what they had left unsaid and do everything right that they had done badly in the past."
"Florentino Ariza, on the other hand, had not stopped thinking of her for a single moment since Fermina Daza had rejected him out of hand after a long and troubled love affair fifty-one years, nine months, and four days ago. He did not have to keep a running tally...because not a day had passed that something did not happen to remind him of her."
"...and that casual glance was the beginning of a cataclysm [love that word!] of love that still had not ended half a century later."
" 'Take advantage of it now, while you are young, and suffer all you can...because these things don't last your whole life.' "
"It was the year they fell into devastaing love. Neither one could do anything except think about the other., dream about the other...Never in that delirious spring, or in the follwoing year did they have the opportunity to speak to each other. Moreover, from the moment they saw each other for the first time until he reiterated his determination half a century later, they never had the opportunity to be alone or to talk of their love."
"In reality they were distracted letters, intended to keep the coals alive without putting her hand in the fire, while Florentino Ariza burned himself alive in every line"
"There is no greater glory than to die for love"
"...and if she did not go made with despair it was becuase she always found relief in the memory of Florentino Ariza"
"...consumed in the fiery coals of reckless love"
"He was still too young to know that the heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good"
"...she saw the splendor of his perfect teeth between his rosy lips, she had felt an irresistible desire to devour him with kisses"
"That was always the case: any event, good or bad, had some relationship to her."
"...and then the being who loved her most, who would love her forever, would not even have the right to die for her."
"Fermina Daza would suffer one moment, one at least but in any event, when the phanotm of the sweetheart she ahd scorned, humiliated, and insulted would appear in her thoughts, and all her happiness would be destroyed"
"...in the hope that another love would cure him of the one that did not allow him to live"
"...she continued to evoke her husband's excellent qualities until daybreak, not reproaching him for any disloyalty other than his having died without her, which was mitiagted by her conviction that he had never belonged to her as much as he did now that he was in the coffin nailed shut with a dozen three-inch nails and two meters under the ground....'I am happy,' she said, 'because only now do I know for certain where he is when he is not at home.' "
"...and it was always without pretensions of loving or being loved, although always in the hope fo finding something that resembled love, but without the problems of love."
" 'I adore you beacuse you made me a whore'."
"...she intoxicated them with her charm."
"...a driving need for love, which no obstacle in this world or the next would ever break."
"...not because he did not want to open the chest where he had kept it so carefully hidden for half his life, but because he had realized only then that he had lost the key" (its a metaphor)
"...cry to her heart's content and to feel no shame, for there was no greater relief than weeping"
"Nor did she cherish that dream agian after her first formal fiance, whom she loved wiht the almost demented passion of which one is capable at the age of eighteen, broke the engagement one week before the date they had set for the wedding, and left her to wander the limbo of abandoned bride"
"In truth, he always behaved as if he were the eternal husband of Fermina Daza, an unfaithful husband but a tenacious one, who fought endlessly to free himself from his servitude without causing her the displeasure of a betrayal."
"...interrupting watever he was doing at any hour of the day to search for her along the uncertain pathways of his presentiments, on the most unlikely streets, in unreal places where she could not possibly be, wandering without reason, with a longing in his breast that gave him no rest until he saw her, even for an instant"
"...would only offer her wordly 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."
"She knew that he loved her above all else, more than anyone else in the world, but only for his own sake..."
"He ws a perfect husband: he never picked up anything form the floor, or turned out a light, or closed a door."
"That is how she felt without him, feeling his presence where he no longer was..."
"...wherever she went wherever she turned, no matter what she was doing, she would come across something of his that would remind her of him."
"Then, overcome by nostalgia, she dared to recall for the first time the illusory days of that unreal love"
"And so she thought about him without wanting to, and the more she thought about him the angrier she became,and the angrier she became the more she thought about him, until it was something so unbearable her mind could no longer contain it."
"The purified memory of her husband, no longer an obstacle in her daily actions, in her private thoughts, in her simplest intentions, became a watchful presence that guided her but did not hinder her."
"...he felt pain in his heart and each beat echoed with a metalllic resonance in his arteries. He felt old, forlorn, useless, and his desire to cry was so urgent that he could not speak"
" 'But when a woman decides to sleep with a man, there is no wall she will not scale, no fortress she will not destory, no moral consideration she will not ignore at its very root: there is no God worth worrying about.' "
"It was as if they had leapt over the arduous calvary of conjugal life and gone straight to the heart of love. Tehy were together in silence like an old married couple wary of lif, beyond the pitfalls of passion, beyond the brutal mockery of hope and the phantoms of disillusion: beyond love. For they had lived together long enough to know that love was always loe, anytime and anyplace, but it was more soild the closer it came to death."
"Neither one could imagine being in any other home but the cabin or eating in any other way but on the ship, or living any other life for that would be alien to them forever. It was indeed, like dying."
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