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“She would walk through the kitchen at any hour, whenever she was hungry, and put her fork in the pots and eat a little of everything without placing anything on a plate, standing in front of the st...”
“After dinner, at five oclock, the crew distributed folding canvas cots to the passengers, and each person opened his bed wherever he could find room, arranged it with the bedclothes from his petate...”
“The Bishop blessed him and helped him to his feet."May God have mercy on you," he said. And erased him from his heart.”
“For a week, almost without speaking, they went ahead like sleepwalkers through a universe of grief, lighted only by the tenuous reflection of luminous insects, and their lungs were overwhelmed by a...”
“The world must be all fucked up," he said then, "when men travel first class and literature goes as freight.”
“This was when she asked him whether it was true that love conquered all, as the songs said. 'It is true', he replied, 'but you would do well not to believe it.”
“The worst way to miss someone is to have them sitting right next to you and know you can never have them.”
“The act was an exorcism of relief for Florentino Ariza, for when he put the violin back into its case and walked down the dead streets without looking back, he no longer felt that he was leaving th...”
“In the end he read everything that came his way, and he did not have a favorite author but rather many who had been favorites at different times.”
“Be calm. God awaits you at the door.”
“What Uncle Leo XIII never suspected was that his nephew's courage did not come from the need to survive or from a brute indifference inherited from his father, but from a driving need for love, whi...”
“She made a visual inventory of the disaster and confirmed that the girl was curled up like a snail, her head hidden between her arms: terrified but intact. "My God!" Rosa Cabarcas exclaimed. "What ...”
“She was impressed by its simplicity and its seriousness, and the rage she had cultivated with so much love for so many days faded away on the spot.”
“A lost bird appeared in the court and was half an hour jumping around between the spikenard. It sang a progressive note, rising an octave at a time, until it became so acute that it was necessary t...”
“No one described him better than he did when someone accused him of being rich. No, not rich, he said. I am a poor man with money, which is not the same thing.”
“No matter whom I'm with I'll always be alone," she said. And she added with a roguish touch: "Excellency.”
“I see nothing that can unite us under the auspices of innocence and honor," he wrote to her. "In the future you will be alone, although at your husband's side, and I will ab alone in the midst of t...”
“I'll never fall in love again," he once confessed to Jos Palacios, the only human being with whom he ever permitted himself that sort of confidence. "It's like having two souls at the same time.”
“But in her loneliness in the palace she learned to know him, they learned to know each other, and she discovered with great delight that one does not love ones children just because they are ones c...”
“A man only has the right to look down at another when he helps him to lift himself up.”
