197 quotes found
“The memory of the past did not redeem the future, as he insisted on believing.”
“Children inherit their parents' madness.”
“All that Delaura noticed, though, was the uproarious crowing of the roosters.'There are only six of them, but they make enough noise for a hundred,' said the Abbess. 'Furthermore, a pig spoke and a...”
“..he read whatever came his way, as if it had been ordained by fate,..”
“He was invaded by an unreasoning calm, which he interpreted as an omen that nothing new was going to happen, that everything he had done in his life had been in vain, that he could not go on: it wa...”
“Without intending to, without even knowing it, he demonstrated with his life that his father had been right when he repeated until his dying day that there was no one with more common sense, no sto...”
“During the luncheon he paid attention to no one except his own phantoms.”
“Then he looked at Florentino Ariza, his invincible power, his intrepid love, and he was overwhelmed by the belated suspicion that it is life, more than death, that has no limits.”
“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 themsel...”
“I would not have traded the delights of my suffering for anything in the world.”
“It is not that the girl is unfit for everything, it is that she is not of this world.”
“I became another man. I tried to reread the classics that had guided me in adolescence, and I could not bear them. I buried myself in the romantic writings I had repudiated when my mother tried to ...”
“That would be fine, she said If were alone, well leave the lamp lighted so that we can see each other, and I can holler as much as I want without anybodys having to butt in, and you can whisper in ...”
“The wind from the Caribbean blew in the windows along with the racket made by the birds, and Fermina Daza felt in her blood the wild beating of her free will.”
“You can't come in, colonel," she told him. "You may be in command of your war, but I'm in command of my house.”
“Maybe I'll have a tumour like his someday. At first it will be a small but growing sphere that will branch out, growing larger in my stomach like a fetus. I will probably feel it when it starts to ...”
“i discovered that my obsession for having each thing in the right place, each subject at the right time, each word in the right style, was not the well-deserved reward of an ordered mind, but just ...”
