And the two of them loved each other for a long time in silence without making love again.
And in the space that he had occupied in her memory she allowed a field of poppies to bloom.
You have to know languages when you go to sell something, she said with mocking laughter. But when you go to buy, everyone does what he must to understand you.
You can’t eat it, but it sustains you,
Yo seguí almorzando, porque creí que sólo se trataba de un recado; porque no sabía que esa tarde estaban comenzando las cosas que hoy concluyen.
What did you expect? he murmured. Time passes.
Very well, I will marry you if you promise not to make me eat eggplant.
To him she seemed so beautiful, so seductive, so different from ordinary people, that he could not understand why no one was as disturbed as he by the clicking of her heels on the paving stones, why n...
To hell with a fan when the wind is blowing.
Things have a life of their own, the gypsy proclaimed with a harsh accent. It's simply a matter of waking up their souls.
They were two happy lovers among the crowd, and they came to suspect that love could be a feeling that was more relaxing and deep than the happiness, wild but momentary, of their secret nights.
There is no law, human or divine, that this man has not ignored.
There is no greater glory than to die for love.
There is always something left to love.
The world must be all fucked up, he said then, when men travel first class and literature goes as freight.
The weak would never enter the kingdom of love.
The only wars here will be civil wars, and those are like killing your own mother.
The only thing that comes for sure is death.
The only thing that [Amaranta] did not keep in mind in her fearsome plan was that in spite of her pleas to God she might die before Rebeca. That was, in fact, what happened. At the final moment, howev...
The only thing he could do to stay alive was not to allow himself the anguish of that memory. He erased it from his mind, although from time to time in the years that were left to him he would feel it...