Maybe I'll have a tumour like his someday. At first it will be a small but growing sphere that will branch out, growing larger in my stomach like a fetus. I will probably feel it when it starts to tak...
Los sobresaltos continuaban pero les dolían menos: la vida se había encargado de enseñarles que la felicidad del amor no se hizo para dormirse en ella sino para joderse juntos.
Los había visto al pasar, sentados en las salas con la mirada absorta y los brazos cruzados, sintiendo transcurrir un tiempo entero, un tiempo sin desbravar, porque era inútil dividirlo en meses y año...
Life was imposed on her from outside
Lei gli domandò in quei giorni se era vero, come dicevano le canzoni, che l'amore poteva tutto.E' vero rispose lui ma farai bene a non crederci.
Le contestaban que durante muchos años habían estado sin cura, arreglandonegocios del alma directamente con Dios, y habían perdido la malicia del pecado mortal.
Later, given political changes and the deterioration of the world, nobody in the government thought about either arts or letters.
La vida no es la que uno vivió, sino la que uno recuerda y cómo la recuerda para contarla.
La lucidez perversa de la nostalgía.
La ciudad estaba sumergida en su marasmo de siglos, pero no faltó quien vislumbrara el rostro macilento, los ojos fugaces del caballero incierto con sus tafetanes de luto, cuya carroza abandonó el rec...
It was the year they fell into devastating love. Neither one could do anything except think about the other, dream about the other, and wait for letters with the same impatience they felt when they an...
It was the last that remained of a past whose annihilation had not taken place because it was still in a process of annihilation, consuming itself from within, ending at every moment but never ending...
It was simply a way of giving herself some relief, because actually they were joined till death by a bond that was more solid than love: a common prick of conscience.
It was a kind of Chinese toy, made up of five concentric boxes, andin the last one there was a card laboriously inscribed by someone who could barely write:We’ll get together Saturday at the movies. M...
It is 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 is incredible how one can be happy for so many years in the midst of so many squabbles, so many problems, damn it, and not really know if it was love or not.
It is easier to avoid great matrimonial catastrophes than trivial everyday miseries.
In reality they were distracted letters, intended to keep the coals alive without putting her hand in the fire, while Florentino Ariza burned himself in every line.
In all the houses keys to memorizing objects and feelings had been written. But the system demanded so much vigilance and moral strength that many succumbed to the spell of an imaginary reality, one i...
If you don’t fear God, fear him through the metals.