Un pájaro extraviado apareció en el patio y estuvo como media hora dando saltitos de inválido por entre los nardos. Cantó una nota progresiva, subiendo cada vez una octava, hasta cuando se hizo tan ag...
Thinking that it would console him, she took a piece of charcoal and erased the innumerable loves that he still owed her for, and she voluntarily brought up her own most solitary sadnesses so as not t...
There is no innocence more dangerous than the innocence of age.
There had never been a death so foretold.
The truth is that Dr. Juvenal Urbino's suit had never been undertaken in the name of love, and it was curious, to say the least, that a militant Catholic like him would offer her only worldly goods: s...
The problem in public life is learning to overcome terror; the problem in married life is learning to overcome boredom.
The act was an exorcism of relieffor Florentino Ariza, for when he put the violin back into its case and walkeddown the dead streets without looking back, he no longer felt that he wasleaving the next...
That is how they were: they spent their lives proclaiming their proud origins, the historic merits of the city, the value of its relics, its heroism, its beauty, but they were blind to the decay of it...
Sólo ahora, cuando ya pasé por todas las edades que mi padre tuvo en su larga vida, he empezado a verme en el espejo mucho más parecido a él que a mí mismo.
She was beautiful and lithe, with soft skin the color of bread and eyes like green almonds, and she had straight black hair that reached to her shoulders, and an aura of antiquity that could just as w...
Se había cansado de esperar al hombre que se quedó, a los hombres que se fueron, a los incontables hombres que erraron el camino de su casa confundidos por la incertidumbre de las barajas.
Se dio cuenta de que el coronel Aureliano Buendía no le había perdido el cariño a la familia a causa del endurecimiento de la guerra, como ella creía antes, sino que nunca había querido a nadie, ni si...
Pero poco a poco lo fue abandonando a su soledad,
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 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 era comprensible que una mujer con aquel espíritu hubiera regresado a un pueblo muerto, deprimido por el polvo y el calor,
Music is important for one’s health.
Lo único cierto era que se llevaron todo: el dinero, las brisas de diciembre, el cuchillo del pan, el trueno de las tres de la tarde, el aroma de los jazmines, el amor.
Ladies and gentlemen, the captain said in a low voice that was slow and a little tired. you have five minutes to withdraw.The redoubled hooting and shouting drowned out the bugle call that announced t...