Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude

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

"There is always something left to love."

"It's enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment."

"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."

"Gaston was not only a fierce lover, with endless wisdom and imagination, but he was also, perhaps, the first man in the history of the species who had made an emergency landing and had come close to killing himself and his sweetheart simply to make love in a field of violets."