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.
Why do you insist on talking about what does not exist?
Together they had overcome the daily incomprehension, the instantaneous hatred, the reciprocal nastiness, and fabulous flashes of glory in the conjugal conspiracy. It was time when they both loved eac...
They were so close to each other that they preferred death to separation.
There is no law, human or divine, that this man has not ignored.
There he was, just as she saw him: the shadow of someone she had never met.
The only wars here will be civil wars, and those are like killing your own mother.
The only thing worse than bad health is a bad name.
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 regret I will have in dying is if it is not for love.
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 the n...
She was the only person in the house, of either sex, who did not seem to have a heart pierced by the sorrow of thwarted love.
She said: Spiritual love from the waist up and physical love from the waist down.
She had helped him to endure the suffering as lovingly as she had helped him to discover happiness.
Não precisou de abrir a janela para identificar Dezembro. Descobriu-o nos seus próprios ossos.
Nunca seré viejo –le dije entonces-. Ella lo interpretó como un propósito heroico de luchar sin cuartel contra los estragos del tiempo, pero él fue más explícito: tenía la determinación irrevocable de...
No se le había ocurrido pensar hasta entonces que la literatura fuera el mejor juguete que se había inventado para burlarse de la gente,
Même lorsqu'il la guettait sans être vu, en ces jours d'anxiété ou il attendait une réponse à sa première lettre, il la voyait transfigurée dans la réverbération du début de l'après-midi, sous la fine...
Many displayed in their nudity traces of their past: scars of knife thrusts in the belly, starbursts of guns hot wounds, ridges of the razor cuts of love, Caesarean sections sewn up by butchers. Some...
Love is the only thing that interests me.