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“A falcon who chases a warlike crane can only hope for a life of pain.” (Chronicle of a Death Foretold Quotes)
Gabriel García Márquez
Chronicle of a Death Foretold
“Ever since then they were still linked by a serious affection, but without the disorder of love, and she had so much respect for him that she never again went to bed with anyone if he was present.”
Gabriel García Márquez
Chronicle of a Death Foretold
“He always considered death an unavoidable professional hazard.”
Gabriel García Márquez
Chronicle of a Death Foretold
“He was carrying a suitcase with clothing in order to stay and another just like it with almost two thousand letters that she had written him. They were arranged by date in bundles ties with colored ribbons, and they were all unopened.”
Gabriel García Márquez
Chronicle of a Death Foretold
“He was healthier than the rest of us, but when you listened with the stethoscope you could hear the tears bubbling inside his heart.”
Gabriel García Márquez
Chronicle of a Death Foretold
“I couldn’t bring myself to admit that life might end up resembling bad literature so much.”
Gabriel García Márquez
Chronicle of a Death Foretold
“It was she who did away with my generation’s virginity. She taught us much more than we should have learned, but she taught us above all that there’s no place in life sadder than an empty bed.”
Gabriel García Márquez
Chronicle of a Death Foretold
“On the morning that they were going to kill him, Santiago Nasar got up at five-thirty in the morning to wait for the boat bishop was coming on.”
Gabriel García Márquez
Chronicle of a Death Foretold
“She was certain that the Vicario brothers were not as eager to carry out the sentence as to find someone who would do them the favor of stopping them.” (Chronicle of a Death Foretold Quotes)
Gabriel García Márquez
Chronicle of a Death Foretold
“She would go to sleep only once and that would be to die.”
Gabriel García Márquez
Chronicle of a Death Foretold
“The truth is that she spoke about her misfortune without any shame in order to cover up the other misfortune, the real one, that was burning in her insides.”
Gabriel García Márquez
Chronicle of a Death Foretold
“Then they both kept on knifing him against the door with alternate and easy stabs, floating in the dazzling backwater they had found on the other side of fear.”
Gabriel García Márquez
Chronicle of a Death Foretold
“There had never been a death so foretold.”
Gabriel García Márquez
Chronicle of a Death Foretold
“They looked like two children,” she told me. And that thought frightened her, because she’d always felt that only children are capable of everything.”
Gabriel García Márquez
Chronicle of a Death Foretold
“When I wake up,” he said, “remind me that I’m going to marry her.”
Gabriel García Márquez
Chronicle of a Death Foretold
