01c. 1970 ADI became another man. I tried to reread the classics that had guided me in adolescence, and I could not bear them. I buried myself in the romantic writings I had repudiated when my mother tried to impose them on me with a heavy hand, and in them I became aware that the invincible power that has moved the world is unrequited, not happy love.Gabriel García Márquez / quote ↗
02c. 1970 ADThat would be fine,” she said “If we’re alone, we’ll leave the lamp lighted so that we can see each other, and I can holler as much as I want without anybody’s having to butt in, and you can whisper in my ear any crap you can think of.Gabriel García Márquez / quote ↗
03c. 1970 ADThe wind from the Caribbean blew in the windows along with the racket made by the birds, and Fermina Daza felt in her blood the wild beating of her free will.Gabriel García Márquez / quote ↗
04c. 1970 ADYou can't come in, colonel," she told him. "You may be in command of your war, but I'm in command of my house.Gabriel García Márquez / quote ↗
05c. 1970 ADMaybe I'll have a tumour like his someday. At first it will be a small but growing sphere that will branch out, growing larger in my stomach like a fetus. I will probably feel it when it starts to take motion, moving inward with the fury of a sleepwalking child, traveling through my intestines blindly -Gabriel García Márquez / quote ↗
06c. 1970 ADi discovered that my obsession for having each thing in the right place, each subject at the right time, each word in the right style, was not the well-deserved reward of an ordered mind, but just the opposite: a complete system of pretense invented by me to hide the disorder of my nature.Gabriel García Márquez / quote ↗
