Love in the Time of Cholera

by Gabriel García Márquez

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

“The problem in public life is learning to overcome terror; the problem in married life is learning to overcome boredom.”

She knew that he loved her above all else, more than anyone else in the world, but only for his own sake: she was in his holy service.

For they had lived together long enough to know that love was always love, anytime and anyplace, but it was more solid the closer it came to death.