Aureliano not only understood by then, he also lived his brotherโs experiences as something of his own, for on one occasion when the latter was explaining in great detail the mechanism of love, he interrupted him to ask: โWhat does it feel like?โ Josรฉ Arcadio gave an immediate reply: โItโs like an earthquake.
Gabriel Garcia MarquezLife had already given him sufficient reasons for knowing that no defeat was the final one.
Gabriel Garcia MarquezHe sank into the rocking chair, the same one in which Rebecca had sat during the early days of the house to give embroidery lessons, and in which Amaranta had played Chinese checkers with Colonel Gerineldo Marquez, and in which Amarana Ursula had sewn the tiny clothing for the child, and in that flash of lucidity he became aware that he was unable to bear in his soul the crushing weight of so much past.
Gabriel Garcia MarquezThinking that it would console him, she took a piece of charcoal and erased the innumerable loves that he still owed her for, and she voluntarily brought up her own most solitary sadnesses so as not to leave him alone in his weeping.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez