Love in the Time of Cholera Loyalty Quotes

Dr. Urbino's tongue burned with the live coal of the secret […] And he felt redeemed by his own loyalty to the woman he had repudiated five hours earlier.  (1.102)

But although stemming the flow of his blood into the tide of history caused him pain, what worried Dr. Urbino the most about dying was the solitary life Fermina Daza would lead without him.  (1.119)

"Fermina," he said, "I have waited for this opportunity for more than half a century, to repeat to you once again my vow of eternal fidelity and everlasting love."  (1.130)

Florentino Ariza, on the other hand, had not stopped thinking of her for a single moment since Fermina Daza had rejected him out of hand after a long and troubled love affair fifty-one years, nine months, and four days ago.  (2.1)

"Be that as it may, I cannot answer without knowing what she thinks.  It would be a betrayal."  (2.84)

She no longer thought of him as the impossible sweetheart but as the certain husband to whom she belonged heart and soul.  She felt the heavy weight of the time they had lost while she was away, she felt how hard it was to be alive and how much love she was going to need to love her man as God demanded.  (2.129)

Then Florentino Ariza knew that some night, sometime in the future, in a joyous bed with Fermina Daza, he was going to tell her that he had no revealed the secret of his love, not even to the one person who had earned the right to know it.  (4.84)

In truth, he always behaved as if he were the eternal husband of Fermina Daza, an unfaithful husband but a tenacious one, who fought endlessly to free himself from his servitude without causing her the displeasure of a betrayal. (4.98)

So that it was reasonable to think that the woman he loved most on earth, the one he had waited for from one century to the next without a sigh of disenchantment, might no have the opportunity to lead him by the arm across a street full of lunar grave mounds and beds of windblown poppies in order to help him reach the other side of death in safety.  (5.106)

In January 1824, Commodore Johann Bernard Elbers, the father of river navigation, had registered the first steamboat to sail the Magdalena River, a primitive old forty-horsepower wreck named Fidelity.  More than a century later, one seventh of July at six o'clock in the evening, Dr. Urbino Daza and his wife accompanied Fermina Daza as she boarded the boat that was to carry her on her first river voyage.  It was the first vessel built in the local shipyards and had been christened New Fidelity in memory of its glorious ancestor.  Fermina Daza could never believe that so significant a name for them both was indeed a historical coincidence and not another conceit born of Florentino Ariza's chronic romanticism.  (6.150)