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“For, as soon as Martin achieved an attitude of indifference toward Sonia, he would suddenly notice what a graceful back she had, how she tilted her head—and her slanted eyes ran across him with a swift chill, and the undercurrent of mirth in her speech bathed the base of each phrase, until, abruptly, her laughter burst into the open”

I lost the plot for a while then. And I lost the subplot, the script, the soundtrack, the intermission, my popcorn, the credits, and the exit sign.

“Florentino Ariza wrote everything with so much passion that even official documents seemed to be about love.”

But if they had learned anything together, it was that wisdom comes to us when it can no longer do any good.

there sprang up between the mistress and the girl that strange awareness, then they spoken intimacy that sometimes connects two people who may never even make each other’s acquaintance.

wherever they walked, it was well, the world re-echoed round them in discovery.

i see the man i could have been, and the man i was, and then everything is bright and new and keen with love and i sweep through sam’s body, trying to change him, trying so hard, and feeling only hate and hate, solid as stone.