Love in the Time of Cholera - Bilingual quotes that celebrate the beauty of language, showcasing meaningful expressions in two unique perspectives.

... a man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.

We men are the miserable slaves of prejudice

She seemed to him so beautiful, so seductive, so different from common people that he did not understand why no one was as moved as he was by the castanet song of her heels on the cobblestones of the street, nor why hearts did not beat not the rush to the sighs of her ruffles, nor why no one went mad with love under the caress of her hair, the flight of her hands, the gold of her smile.

...I reminded him that the weak cannot enter the kingdom of love, because it is a harsh and strict kingdom, and that women only surrender to determined men, because they give them the reassurance they thirst for to face life.

Remember that everything that is good, whatever it's origin, comes from the holy spirit.

Florentino Ariza wrote everything with so much passion that even official documents seem to be about love. His bills of lading were rhymed no matter how he tried to avoid it, and routine business letters had a lyrical spirit that diminished their authority.

I told your daughter that she is like a rose. True enough, said Lorenzo Daza but one with too many thorns.

The only thing that hurts me about dying is that it's not about love.

We men are the slaves of prejudice,' he had once said to her. 'But when a woman decides to sleep with a man, there is no wall she will not scale, no fortress she will not destroy, no moral consideration she will not ignore at its very root: there is no God worth worrying about.

Today, when I saw you, I realized that what is between us is nothing more than an illusion.