#cholera

She would defend herself, saying that love, no matter what else it might be, was a natural talent. She would say: You are either born knowing how, or you never know. ↗

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

#love

There is no greater glory than to die for love. ↗

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

#love

The people one loves should take all their things with them when they die. ↗

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

#love-in-the-time-of-cholera #death

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. ↗

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

#life