I always listen to what people don’t say, it’s a lot more interesting than the bullshit they want you to believe.

whoever approaches his goal dances

In their vanity men focus on what they wish to hear and miss the hidden meaning, the lurking threat.

Florentino Ariza always forgot when he should not have that women, and Prudencia Pitre more than any other, always think about the hidden meanings of questions more than about the questions themselves.

To be depressed or neurotic is passive. It has happened to all of us; we are its victims, are we have no control over it.