# Quote — Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Love in the Time of Cholera

> Florentina Ariza had kept his answer ready for fifty-three years, seven months, and eleven days and nights.
>
> 'Forever,' he said.

- Author: [Gabriel Garcia Marquez](https://www.leafyquotes.com/gabriel-garcia-marquez.md)
- Book: [Love in the Time of Cholera](https://www.leafyquotes.com/gabriel-garcia-marquez/love-in-the-time-of-cholera.md)
- Page: 461
- Original (es): Florentino Ariza tenía la respuesta preparada desde hacía cincuenta y tres años, siete meses y once días con sus noches. / —Toda la vida —dijo.
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Love_in_the_Time_of_Cholera#Chapter_VI) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/gabriel-garcia-marquez/love-in-the-time-of-cholera/florentina-ariza-had

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p. 80 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/gabriel-garcia-marquez/love-in-the-time-of-cholera/the-lesson-was.md)

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p. 235 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/gabriel-garcia-marquez/love-in-the-time-of-cholera/he-had-made.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)