Quotes In 100 Years Of Solitude
Quotes in 100 years of Solitude
Fernanda
“She had even began to lose the illusion of being a queen when two peremptory raps of the knocker sounded at the door and she opened it to a well- groomed military officer with ceremonious manners who had a scar on his cheek and a gold medal on his chest.”
“In one single day, with a brutal slap, life threw on top of her the whole weight of a reality” that her parents had kept hidden from her for many years. When she returned home “she shut herself up in her room to weep, indifferent to Don Fernando’s pleas and explanations as he tried to erase the scars of that strange joke.”
“She opened her bedroom with a resignation worthy of an expiatory victim”
“Her glorious eyes of a frightened animal and her long, copper-colored hair spread out across the pillow”
“It took him a moment to realize that Fernanda was wearing a white nightgown that reached down to her ankles, with long sleeves and with a large, round buttonhole, delicately trimmed, at the level of her lower stomach.”
“That’s the most obscene thing I’ve ever seen in my life,” he shouted with a laugh that rang through the house. “I married a Sister of Charity.
She put an end to the custom of eating in the kitchen and whenever anyone was hungry, and she imposed the obligation of doing it at regular hours at the large table in the dining room, covered with a linen cloth and with silver candlesticks and table service.
she was sure that the old colonel was an animal who had been tamed by the years and by disappointment and who, in a burst of senile rebellion, was quite capable of uprooting the foundations of the house. When her husband decided to give their first son the name of his great- grandfather, she did not dare oppose him because she had been
She expressed her unreserved determination to name her Renata after her mother. Úrsula had decided to call her Remedios. After a tense argument, in which Aureliano Segundo acted as the laughing go- between, they baptized
Fernanda
“She had even began to lose the illusion of being a queen when two peremptory raps of the knocker sounded at the door and she opened it to a well- groomed military officer with ceremonious manners who had a scar on his cheek and a gold medal on his chest.”
“In one single day, with a brutal slap, life threw on top of her the whole weight of a reality” that her parents had kept hidden from her for many years. When she returned home “she shut herself up in her room to weep, indifferent to Don Fernando’s pleas and explanations as he tried to erase the scars of that strange joke.”
“She opened her bedroom with a resignation worthy of an expiatory victim”
“Her glorious eyes of a frightened animal and her long, copper-colored hair spread out across the pillow”
“It took him a moment to realize that Fernanda was wearing a white nightgown that reached down to her ankles, with long sleeves and with a large, round buttonhole, delicately trimmed, at the level of her lower stomach.”
“That’s the most obscene thing I’ve ever seen in my life,” he shouted with a laugh that rang through the house. “I married a Sister of Charity.
She put an end to the custom of eating in the kitchen and whenever anyone was hungry, and she imposed the obligation of doing it at regular hours at the large table in the dining room, covered with a linen cloth and with silver candlesticks and table service.
she was sure that the old colonel was an animal who had been tamed by the years and by disappointment and who, in a burst of senile rebellion, was quite capable of uprooting the foundations of the house. When her husband decided to give their first son the name of his great- grandfather, she did not dare oppose him because she had been
She expressed her unreserved determination to name her Renata after her mother. Úrsula had decided to call her Remedios. After a tense argument, in which Aureliano Segundo acted as the laughing go- between, they baptized