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 … - Gabriel García Márquez

He said that people who loved [animals] to excess were capable of the worst cruelties toward human beings. He said that dogs were not loyal but servile, that cats were opportunists and traitors, that peacocks were heralds of death, that macaws were simply decorative annoyances, that rabbits fomented greed, that monkeys carried the fever of lust, and that roosters were damned because they had been complicit in the three denials of Christ.

races condemned to 100 years of solitude did not have a second opportunity on earth.

كانت تقابله دوما دون الادعاء بأنها تحبه ودون مطالبته بان يحبها , ولكن على امل العثور على شيء يشبه الحب , انما دون مشاكل الحب !