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Little by little she had been discovering the uncertainty of her husband's step, his mood changes, the gaps in his memory, his recent habit of sobbing...more

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They were people whose lives were slow, who did not see themselves growing old, or falling sick, or dying, but who disappeared little by little in the...more

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She prayed to God to give him at least a moment so that he would not go without knowing how much she had loved him despite all their doubts, and she f...more

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At eight-one years of age he had enough lucidity to realize that he was attached to this world by a few slender threads that could break painlessly wi...more

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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 ali...more

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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

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Tell him,' the colonel said, smiling, 'that a person doesn’t die when he should but when he can.

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... he was shaken by the overwhelming revelation that the headlong race between his misfortunes and his dreams was at that moment reaching the finish ...more

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t nightfall, atthe oppressive moment of transition, a storm of carnivorous mosquitoes roseout of the swamps, and a tender breath of human shit, warm a...more

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The people one loves should take all their things with them when they die.

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My God, if I had a heart, I would write my hate on ice, and wait for the sun to show.

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and realized that death was not only a permanent probability, as he had always believed, but an immediate reality.

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She nailed it to the wall with her well-aimed dart, like a butterfly with no will whose sentence has always been written.

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Always. At every moment, asleep and awake, during the most sublime and most abject moments, Amaranta thought of Rebeca, because solitude had made a se...more

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It is easier to start a war than to end it.