Status Updates From Noli Me Tangere

"Thank God, the dead man is neither a priest nor a Spaniard. Besides, we must celebrate your escape. If that stone had caught you underneath.”
[...]
“Well, anyway, the dead man was just a native.”
“On with the fiesta! Music! Long faces won’t bring the dead back to life."

mind you, the man died like two minutes before they said all this - im really liking this book but sometimes it gets a little bit too real

"Glory be to God on high and peace on earth to men of goodwill! But as we will see later on, men needn’t exhibit goodwill for them to live in peace."

Yup yup yup

"He was rich, and his gold prayed for him."

Damn this whole chapter just readin him hard

"Her eyes, which were almost always cast down, when she raised them testified to the purest of souls, and when she smiled, revealing her small, white teeth, one might be tempted to say that a rose is merely a plant, and ivory just an elephant’s tusk."

JOSÉ!!!!