One minute of reconciliation is worth more than a whole life of friendship!
Oh, all right, she said. But be careful, those tiles are rotten. The stranger’s face had a pained expression of stupor and he seemed to be battling silently against his primary instincts so as not to...
O problema da vida pública é aprender a dominar o terror, o problema da vida conjugai é aprender a dominar o tédio.
No tengo que decirlo, porque se me distingue a leguas: soy feo, tímido y anacrónico.
No nos tuteábamos, por la rara costumbre colombiana de tutearse desde el primer saludo y pasar al usted sólo cuando se logra una mayor confianza —como entre esposos.
No entendía cómo se llegaba al extremo de hacer una guerra por cosas que no podían tocarse con las manos.
Nada en este mundo debe ser más tremendo que los escombros de un hombre.
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...
Let me soap you, he murmured.Thank you for your good intentions, she said, but my two hands are quite enough.Even if it's just your back, the foreigner begged.That would be silly, she said. People nev...
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.
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.
In the plenitude of their relationship, Florentina Ariza asked himself which of the two was love: the turbulent bed or the peaceful Sunday afternoons, and Sara Noriega calmed him with the simple argum...
In a sudden inspiration, Florentino Ariza opened a can of red paint that was within reach of the bunk, wet his index finger, and painted the pubis of the beautiful pigeon fancier with an arrow of bloo...
Ils s'aimèrent deux fois par semaine pendant plus de trois mois, protégés par l'innocente complicité d'Aureliano le Second qui ajoutait foi, sans penser à mal, aux alibis de sa fille, simplement pour...
IT WAS INEVITABLE: the scent of bitter almonds always reminded him of the fate of unrequited love.
I was ignorant in the art of seduction and had always chosen my brides for a night at random, more for their price than their charms, and we had made love without love, half-dressed most of the time a...
I understood that he was my host, though he only glanced at me and walked by, and I did not have the audacity to signal to him in any way. He hurried into the station and came out again minutes later...
I have never done anything except write, but I don't possess the vocation or talents of a narrator, have no knowledge at all of the laws of dramatic composition, and if I have embarked upon this enter...