But she realized immediately that he was only a poor frightened man and she gathered him into the lagoon of her pity.
-The Autumn of the Patriarch
Roosters were damned because they had been complicit in the three denials of Christ.
-Love in the Time of Cholera
But the only advice he gave him was never issue an order unless you’re sure it’s going to be carried out.”
-The Autumn of the Patriarch
They made her urinate over hot bricks in order to cure her of the habit of wetting her bed.
-One Hundred Years of Solitude
There was no light but that of your buttocks, Leticia, nothing but your totemic teats, your flat feet, your ramus of rue as remedy.
-The Autumn of the Patriarch