Love in the Time of Cholera

This is yet another wonderful novel by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. If  One hundred years of solitude had an epic story line, then this novel could be summarized in couple of sentences.

After being rejected by Fermina Daza , Florentino Ariza waits for his lover until she becomes a widow and eventually gets to live with her together.

Someone said that if Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet is about adolescent love, then 'Love in the time of Cholera' is the best book about love in old age.
 
Just like the previous novel, I was just amazed by Gabriel Garcia's vivid imagination and his wonderful prose. Here are some good ones.

Wisdom comes to use when it can no longer do any good. - pg 26.

the heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good - pg 106.

'No ,not rich' ..'I am a poor man with money.shich is not the same thing .'  - pg 167 (Uncle Leo X11).

for a long time, he had boarded ships to his country just to drink a glass of water from the cisterns
filled with the rains of the village where he was born.   

 ..she felt and irresistible longing to begin life with him over again so that they could say what they havd left unsaid and do everything right that they had done in the past . -pg 47

She would defend herself saying that love ,no matter what else it might be, was a natuarl talent.'You are either  born knowing how or you never know' - pg 198

Life would have been another matter .. if they had learnt in time that it was easier to avoid great matrimonial catastrophes than trivial everyday miseries. - pg 26.