One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967)

“What does love feel like?” asked Aureliano. Jose Arcadio gave an immediate reply: “It’s like an earthquake.”

“Five minutes have passed,” the captain said. “One more minute and we’ll open fire.” “You bastards!” Jose Arcadio Segundo shouted. “Take the extra minute and stick it up your ass!”

Gaston was not only a fierce lover, with endless wisdom and imagination, but he was also, perhaps, the first man in the history of the species who had made an emergency landing and had come close to killing himself and his sweetheart simply to make love in a field of violets.