There are some corrupt Christians who do their business with female donkeys. Votes: 4
Bad luck doesn't have any chinks in it. I was born a son of a bitch and I'm going to die a son of a bitch. - Captain Roque Carnicero Votes: 4
The ferocity of Santiago Nasar's fate, which had collected twenty years of happiness from him not only with his death but also with the dismemberment of his body and its dispersion and extermination. Votes: 4
No one described him better than he did when someone accused him of being rich.No, not rich,he said. I am a poor man with money, which is not the same thing. Votes: 4
Then he made one last effort to search in his heart for the place where his affection had rotted away, and he could not find it. Votes: 4
The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast. Votes: 4
When I wake up, he said, remind me that I'm going to marry her. Votes: 4
Opposite her, calming his peaceful hunger, was old Jacob, a man who had loved her so much and for so long that he could no longer conceive of any suffering that didn't start with his wife. Votes: 4
The adolescents of my generation, greedy for life, forgot in body and soul about their hopes for the future until reality taught them that tomorrow was not what they had dreamed, and they discovered nostalgia. Votes: 4
She began to study with a teacher of teachers, whom they brought for that purpose from the city of Mompox, and who died unexpectedly two weeks later, and she continued for several years with the best musician at the seminary, whose gravedigger's breath distorted her arpeggios." Votes: 4
Aren't you afraid you will be damned?''I believe I already am, but not by the Holy Spirit,' said Delaura without alarm. 'I have always believed He attributes more importance to love than to faith." Votes: 4
She wanted to be herself again, to recover all that she had been obliged to give up in half a century of servitude that had doubtless made her happy but which, once her husband was dead, did not leave her even the vestiges of her identity. Votes: 2
He always considered death an unavoidable professional hazard. Votes: 1
Make no mistake: peaceful madmen are ahead of the future. Votes: 1
It is easier to start a war than to end it. Votes: 1
She nailed it to the wall with her well-aimed dart, like a butterfly with no will whose sentence has always been written. Votes: 1
Zijn goede bedoelingen werden gedwarsboomd door de onwankelbare starheid van Rebeca, die vele jaren van leed en ellende nodig had gehad om de voorrechten van de eenzaamheid te verkrijgen en die niet van plan was daarvan af te zien in ruil voor een oude dag welke verstoord zou worden door de valse aantrekkelijkheid van een anders medelijden. Votes: 1
It was against all scientific reason for two people who hardly knew each other, with no ties at all between them, with different characters, different upbringings, and even different genders, to suddenly find themselves committed to living together, to sleeping in the same bed, to sharing two destinies that perhaps were fated to go in opposite directions. Votes: 1
Men demand much more than you think, she would tell her enigmatically. There's a lot of cooking, a lot of sweeping, a lot of suffering over little things beyond what you think. Votes: 1
He was aware he did not love her. He had married her because he liked her haughtiness, her seriousness, her strength, and also because of some vanity on his part, but as she kissed him for the first time he was sure there would be obstacle to their inventing true love. Votes: 1
I never had intimate friends, and the few who came close are in New York. By which I mean they're dead, because that's where I suppose condemned souls go in order not to endure the truth of their past lives." Votes: 1
He soon acquired the forlorn look that one sees in vegetarians. His skin became covered with a thin moss, similar to that which flourished on the antique vest that he never took off, and his breath exhaled the odor of a sleeping animal." Votes: 1
For a week, almost without speaking, they went ahead like sleepwalkers through a universe of grief, lighted only by the tenuous reflection of luminous insects, and their lungs were overwhelmed by a suffocating smell of blood. Votes: 1
He soon acquired the forlorn look that one sees in vegetarians. His skin became covered with a thin moss, similar to that which flourished on the antique vest that he never took off, and his breath exhaled the odor of a sleeping animal. Votes: 1
Even before his eyes began to fail he had his secretaries read to him, and then he read no other way because of the annoyance that eyeglasses caused him. But his interest in what he read was decreasing at the same time, and as always he attributed this to a cause beyond his control.The fact is there are fewer and fewer good books, he would say. Votes: 1
Pero hacia las siete de la noche las ventanas se abrian de golpe para convocar el aire fresco que empezaba a moverse,y una muchedumbre jubilosa se echaba a las calles sin ningun otro proposito distinto que vivir. Votes: 1
Desde la primera noche de luna, ambos se hicieron trizas los corazones con un amor de principiantes feroces Votes: 1
You people have a religion of death that fills you with the joy and courage to confront it...I do not. I believe the only essential thing is to be alive.- Abrenucio Votes: 1
Be calm. God awaits you at the door. Votes: 1
We men are the miserable slaves of prejudice. But when a woman decides to sleep with a man, there is no wall she will not scale, no fortress she will not destroy, no moral consideration she will not ignore at its very root: there is no God worth worrying about. Votes: 1
...her own experience was beginning to tell her that an alert old age can be more keen than the cards. Votes: 0
Arcadio had seen her many times working in her parents' small food store but he had never taken a good look at her because she had that rare virtue of never existing completely except at the opportune moment. Votes: 0
nothing in this world was more difficult than love. Votes: 0
One minute of reconciliation is worth more than a whole life of friendship! Votes: 0
This was when she asked him whether it was true that love conquered all, as the songs said. 'It is true', he replied, 'but you would do well not to believe it. Votes: 0
She reminded him that the weak will never enter the kingdom of love, which is a harsh and ungenerous kingdom,and that women give themselves only to men of resolute spirit, who provide them with the security they need in order to face life. Votes: 0
Pierwszy z rodu jest przywiazany do drzewa, a ostatniego zjadaja mrowki. Votes: 0
It's enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment. Votes: 0
sex is the consolation you have when you can't have love Votes: 0
My God, if I had a heart, I would write my hate on ice, and wait for the sun to show. Votes: 0
Hate and love are reciprocal passions. Votes: 0
He allowed himself to be swayed by his conviction that human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but that life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves. Votes: 0
...he allowed himself to be swayed by his conviction that human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but that life obliges them them over and over again to give birth to themselves. Votes: 0
...you'll see, he said, they'll go back to dividing everything up among the priests, the gringos and the rich, and nothing for the poor, naturally, because they've always been so fucked up that the day that shit is worth money, poor people will be born without an asshole... Votes: 0
It is not that the girl is unfit for everything, it is that she is not of this world. Votes: 0
...he considered respect for one's given word as a wealth that should not be squandered. Votes: 0
wisdom comes to us when it can no longer do any good. Votes: 0
No medicine cures what happiness cannot. Votes: 0
One could be happy not only without love, but despite it. Votes: 0
One had to live a long time to know a man's true nature. Votes: 0
I discovered the miracle that all things that sound are music, including the dishes and silverware in the dishwasher, as long as they fulfill the illusion of showing us where life is heading. Votes: 0
four geological eras had to pass so that human beings would be able to outsing the birds and die for love. Votes: 0
The Bishop blessed him and helped him to his feet."May God have mercy on you," he said. And erased him from his heart. Votes: 0