Cdf Quotes
CD“Angela Vicario, the beautiful girl who’d gotten married the day before, had been returned to the house of her parents, because her husband had discovered that she wasn’t a virgin” (Márquez 21).
“Bayardo San Román, the man who had given back his bride, had turned up for the first time in August of the year before: six months before the wedding. He arrived on the weekly boat with some saddlebags decorated with silver that matched the buckle of his belt and the rings on his boots. He was around thirty years old, but they were well-concealed, because he had the waist of a novice bullfighter, golden eyes, and a skin slowly roasted by saltpeter. He arrived wearing a short jacket and very light trousers, both of natural calfskin, and kid gloves of //the same color” (Márquez 25-26).
“Magdalena Oliver had been with him on the boast and couldn’t take her eyes off him during the whole trip. ‘He looked like a fairy,’ she told me. ‘And it was a pity, because I could have buttered him and eaten him alive.’ She wasn’t the only one who thought so, nor was she the last to realize that Bayardo San Román was not a man to be known at first sight” (Márquez 26).
“[my mother] told me: ‘the strange man is called Bayardo San Román, and everybody says he’s enchanting, but I haven’t seen him’” (Márquez 26).
“Nobody knew what he’d come for. Someone who couldn’t resist the temptation of asking him, a little before the wedding, received the answer: ‘I’ve been going from town to town looking for someone to marry’” (Márquez 26).
“Bayardo San Román not only was capable of doing everything, and doing it quite well, but also had access to endless resources” (Márquez 27). RICHNESS IMPORTANT SEE PAGE 27
“’People like him a lot,’ she told me, ‘because he’s honest and has a good heart’” (Márquez 27).
“His golden eyes had caused the shudder of a fear in her” (Márquez 28).
“He reminded me of the devil” (Márquez 28).
“I met him a short while after she did, when I came home for
“Bayardo San Román, the man who had given back his bride, had turned up for the first time in August of the year before: six months before the wedding. He arrived on the weekly boat with some saddlebags decorated with silver that matched the buckle of his belt and the rings on his boots. He was around thirty years old, but they were well-concealed, because he had the waist of a novice bullfighter, golden eyes, and a skin slowly roasted by saltpeter. He arrived wearing a short jacket and very light trousers, both of natural calfskin, and kid gloves of //the same color” (Márquez 25-26).
“Magdalena Oliver had been with him on the boast and couldn’t take her eyes off him during the whole trip. ‘He looked like a fairy,’ she told me. ‘And it was a pity, because I could have buttered him and eaten him alive.’ She wasn’t the only one who thought so, nor was she the last to realize that Bayardo San Román was not a man to be known at first sight” (Márquez 26).
“[my mother] told me: ‘the strange man is called Bayardo San Román, and everybody says he’s enchanting, but I haven’t seen him’” (Márquez 26).
“Nobody knew what he’d come for. Someone who couldn’t resist the temptation of asking him, a little before the wedding, received the answer: ‘I’ve been going from town to town looking for someone to marry’” (Márquez 26).
“Bayardo San Román not only was capable of doing everything, and doing it quite well, but also had access to endless resources” (Márquez 27). RICHNESS IMPORTANT SEE PAGE 27
“’People like him a lot,’ she told me, ‘because he’s honest and has a good heart’” (Márquez 27).
“His golden eyes had caused the shudder of a fear in her” (Márquez 28).
“He reminded me of the devil” (Márquez 28).
“I met him a short while after she did, when I came home for