197 quotes found
“A century ago, life screwed that poor man and me because we were too young, and now they want to do the same thing because we are too old.”
“Perhaps this is what the stories meant when they called somebody heartsick. Your heart and your stomach and your whole insides felt empty and hollow and aching.”
“As I kissed her the heat of her body increased, and it exhaled a wild, untamed fragrance.”
“The experience taught him [Salvador Allende] too late that a system cannot be changed from the government but from the power.”
“Merciful God!" sighed the General. "We've arrived." And it was true. For there was the sea, and on the other side of the sea was the world.”
“...you'll see, he said, they'll go back to dividing everything up among the priests, the gringos and the rich, and nothing for the poor, naturally, because they've always been so fucked up that the...”
“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 t...”
“I discovered that I am not disciplined out of virtue but as a reaction to my negligence, that I am generous to conceal my meanness, that I pass myself off as prudent because I am evil-minded, that ...”
“There was no sleeper more elegant than she, with her curved body posed for a dance and her hand across her forehead, but there was also no one more ferocious when anyone disturbed the sensuality of...”
“When I stand and contemplate my fate and see the path along which you have led me, what's the rest of it?”
“She was lost in her longing to understand.”
“It was that wisdom to us when it can no longer do any good”
“The feverish excitement of twenty had been something very noble, very beautiful, but it had not been love.”
“Sitting in the wicker rocking chair with her interrupted work in her lap, Amaranta watched Aureliano Jos, his chin covered with foam, stropping his razor to give himself his first shave. His blackh...”
“...he considered respect for one's given word as a wealth that should not be squandered.”
“But what worries me is not your shooting me, because after all, for people like us it's a natural death." He laid his glasses on the bed and took off his watch and chain. "What worries me," he went...”
“He said that people who loved [animals] to excess were capable of the worst cruelties toward human beings. He said that dogs were not loyal but servile, that cats were opportunists and traitors, th...”
“Dogs were not loyal but servile, that cats were opportunists and traitors,”
“Age isn't how old you are but how old you feel.”
“I nee to reason for a plague, ... As far as I know no comets or eclipses have been forecast, and our sins are not great enough for God to be concerned with us.”
