La necesidad de sentirse triste se le iba convirtiendo en un vicio a medida que la devastaban los años.
La muerte no era sólo una probabilidad permanente, como lo había sentido siempre, sino una realidad inmediata.
La monja almorzó en casa, mientras pasaba el tren de regreso, y de acuerdo con la discreción que le habían exigido no volvió a mencionar al niño, pero Fernanda la señaló como un testigo indeseable de...
La mayoría de ellas entraba en el cuarto en la oscuridad y se iban antes del alba, y al día siguiente eran apenas un poco de tedio en la memoria corporal. El único afecto que prevalecía contra el tiem...
La clandestinidad compartida con un hombre que nunca fue suyo por completo, y en la que más de una vez conocieron la explosión instantánea de la felicidad, no le pareció una condición indeseable.
La casa se llenó de amor. Aureliano lo expresó en versos que no tenían principio ni fin. Los escribía en los ásperos pergaminos que le regalaba Melquíades, en las paredes del baño, en la piel de sus b...
Just as real events are forgotten, some that never were can be in our memories as if they happened.
Jose Arcadio Buendia took his wife's words literally. He looked out the window and saw the barefoot children in the sunny garden and he had the impression that only at that instant had they begun to e...
It's like a firstborn son: you spend your life working for him, sacrificing everything for him, and at the moment of truth, he does just as he pleases.
It was said that the hernia whistled like a lugubrious bird on stormy nights and twisted in unbearable pain when a buzzard feather was burned nearby, but no one complained about those discomforts beca...
It had to teach her to think of love as a state of grace: not the means to anything but the alpha and omega, an end it itself.
I would prove to the men how mistaken they are in thinking that they no longer
I understood this man was a Saint, he said.Something even rarer, said Dr. Urbino, An atheistic saint. But those are matters for God to decide.
I go to seek a great perhaps
He would say: You treat me as if I were just anybody. She would roar with the laughter of a free female and say: Not at all: as if you were nobody.
Florentino Ariza was awake most of the night, thinking that he heard the voice of Fermina Daza in the fresh river breeze, ministering to his solitude with her memory, hearing her sing in the respirati...
Fece allora un ultimo sforzo per cercare nel suo cuore il luogo dove gli si erano putrefatti gli affetti, e non poté trovarlo.
Escaped the torments of memory with the aromatic fumes of gold cyanide
Eres un burro. Lo que Dios te dio en ojos te lo quitó en sesos.
En situación tan rara, y a pleno sol, creo haber tomado conciencia de que aquel 9 de abril de 1948 había empezado en Colombia el siglo XX.