# Love in the Time of Cholera - Author: [Gabriel Garcia Marquez](https://www.leafyquotes.com/gabriel-garcia-marquez.md) - Quotes: 18 - Book page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/gabriel-garcia-marquez/love-in-the-time-of-cholera ## Quotes > The lesson was not interrupted, but the girl raised her eyes to see who was passing by the window, and that casual glance was the beginning of a cataclysm of love that still had not ended half a century later. p. 80 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/gabriel-garcia-marquez/love-in-the-time-of-cholera/the-lesson-was.md) > He had made notes of these premature observations, intending to write a practical supplement to the Lovers’ Companion, but the project met the same fate as the previous one after Ausencia Santander sent him tumbling with her old dog’s wisdom, stood him on his head, tossed him up and threw him down, made him as good as new, shattered all his virtuous theories, and taught him the only thing he had to learn about love: that nobody teaches life anything. p. 235 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/gabriel-garcia-marquez/love-in-the-time-of-cholera/he-had-made.md) > Florentina Ariza had kept his answer ready for fifty-three years, seven months, and eleven days and nights. > > 'Forever,' he said. p. 461 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/gabriel-garcia-marquez/love-in-the-time-of-cholera/florentina-ariza-had.md) > “Save that powder for when the Liberals come,” he said with good humor. “We are no longer in the Middle Ages.” p. 157 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/gabriel-garcia-marquez/love-in-the-time-of-cholera/save-that-powder.md) > "I adore you because you made me a whore" p. 205 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/gabriel-garcia-marquez/love-in-the-time-of-cholera/i-adore-you.md) > He allowed himself to be swayed by his conviction that human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but that life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves. p. 221 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/gabriel-garcia-marquez/love-in-the-time-of-cholera/he-allowed-himself.md) > A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father. p. 227 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/gabriel-garcia-marquez/love-in-the-time-of-cholera/a-man-knows.md) > 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. p. 390 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/gabriel-garcia-marquez/love-in-the-time-of-cholera/it-had-to-teach.md) > To him she seemed so beautiful, so seductive, so different from ordinary people, that he could not understand why no one was as disturbed as he by the clicking of her heels on the paving stones, why no one else's heart was wild with the breeze stirred by the sighs of her veils, why everyone did not go mad with the movements of her braid, the flight of her hands, the gold of her laughter. He had not missed a single one of her gestures, not one of the indications of her character, but he did not dare approach her for fear of destroying the spell. p. 140 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/gabriel-garcia-marquez/love-in-the-time-of-cholera/to-him-she.md) > "We men are the miserable slaves of prejudice." p. 437 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/gabriel-garcia-marquez/love-in-the-time-of-cholera/we-men-are.md) > She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them. p. 276 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/gabriel-garcia-marquez/love-in-the-time-of-cholera/she-discovered-with.md) > He liked to say that this love was the result of a clinical error. p. 145 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/gabriel-garcia-marquez/love-in-the-time-of-cholera/he-liked-to-say.md) > He met a man who lived like a king by exploiting three women at the same time. The three of them rendered their accounts at dawn, prostrate at his feet to beg forgiveness for their meager profits, and the only gratification they sought was that he go to bed with the one who brought him the most money. Florentino Ariza thought that terror alone could induce such indignities, but one of the three girls surprised him with the contradictory truth. > > "These are things," she said, "you do only for love." p. 91 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/gabriel-garcia-marquez/love-in-the-time-of-cholera/he-met-a-man.md) > Together they had overcome the daily incomprehension, the instantaneous hatred, the reciprocal nastiness, and fabulous flashes of glory in the conjugal conspiracy. It was time when they both loved each other best, without hurry or excess, when both were most conscious of and grateful for their incredible victories over adversity. Life would still present them with other moral trials, of course, but that no longer mattered: they were on the other shore. p. 299 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/gabriel-garcia-marquez/love-in-the-time-of-cholera/together-they-had.md) > “No, not rich,” he said. “I am a poor man with money, which is not the same thing.” p. 223 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/gabriel-garcia-marquez/love-in-the-time-of-cholera/no-not-rich.md) > “Shoot me,” he said, with his hand on his chest. “There is no greater glory than to die for love.” p. 115 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/gabriel-garcia-marquez/love-in-the-time-of-cholera/shoot-me-he-said.md) > He was still too young to know that the heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good, and that thanks to this artifice we manage to endure the burden of the past. p. 146 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/gabriel-garcia-marquez/love-in-the-time-of-cholera/he-was-still.md) > He repeated until his dying day that there was no one with more common sense, no stonecutter more obstinate, no manager more lucid or dangerous, than a poet. p. 225 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/gabriel-garcia-marquez/love-in-the-time-of-cholera/he-repeated-until.md)