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“You think I’m not aware of that? You don’t seem to know me, Fermín.”

“My dear, if God had wished to give me wider hips, I might even have given birth to you: that’s how well I know you. Pay attention to me. Waiting is the rust of the soul.”

“Three heads think better than two, especially if the third one is mine.”

“The neighbors have doped her with shots of brandy, and when I saw her, she had collapsed onto the sofa and was snoring like a boar and letting off farts that pierced bullet holes through the upholstery.”

These descriptions kill me

“By then I was hopelessly dumbstruck, at the mercy of this creature whose words and charms I had neither means nor desire to resist. I wished that she would never stop speaking, that her voice would wrap itself around me forever, and that her uncle would never return to break the spell of that moment that belonged only to me.”

“The man’s oratory could kill flies midair,” pfff