“Read almost half.
Just didn’t like”
This was written on the title page of my (used) copy of One Hundred Years of Solitude.
I have to say, I agree with the quote. HOWEVER, I pushed on, and while the book was at times confusing and rambly and long-winded (remind you of anyone?) there were some lovely quotes. Without further ado …
One Hundred Years of Solitude Quotes
In several desperate efforts of concentration he willed her to appear but Remedios did not respond. He looked for her in her sisters’ shop, behind the window shades in her house, in her father’s office, but he found her only in the image that saturated his private and terrible solitude.
whose head covered with patent leather curls aroused in women an irrepressible need to sigh
He wept one whole afternoon in Ursula’s lap and she would have sold her soul in order to comfort him.
He became lost in misty byways, in times reserved for oblivion, in labyrinths of disappointment.
so many times postponed, putting her resignation aside and shitting on everything once and for all and drawing out of her heart the infinite stacks of bad words that she had been forced to swallow over a century of conformity.
“Shit!” she shouted.
“If you hadn’t come,” he said, “you never would have seen me again.”
Meme felt the weight of his hand on her knee and she knew that they were both arriving at the other side of abandonment at that instant.
“What shocks me about you,” she said smiling, “is that you always say exactly what you shouldn’t be saying.”
he realized that his wife’s determination had been provoked by a nostalgic mirage
the scientific possibility of seeing the future showing through in time as one sees what is written on the back of a sheet of paper through the light
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While I would not recommend this book, it still had its moments for me. And lines like, in particular, the last one, bring pictures of new stories to my mind. For that reason I’m happy I read the book (and not just so I can stop feeling guilty for having bought it and not read it).
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