Gabriel Garcia Marquez Quotes
Along The Rough Cobbled Streets That Had Served So Well In Surprise Attacks And Buccaneer Landings, Weeds Hung From The Balconies And Opened Cracks In The Whitewashed Walls Of Even The Best-kept Mansions, And The Only Signs Of Life At Two O'clock In The Afternoon Were Languid Piano Exercises Played In The Dim Light Of Siesta. Indoors, In The Cool Bedrooms Saturated With Incense, Women Protected Themselves From The Sun As If It Were A Shameful Infection, And Even At Early Mass They Hid Their Faces In Their Mantillas. Their Love Affairs Were Slow And Difficult And Were Often Disturbed By Sinister Omens, And Life Seemed Interminable. At Nightfall, At The Oppressive Moment Of Transition, A Storm Of Carnivorous Mosquitoes Rose Out Of The Swamps, And A Tender Breath Of Human Shit, Warm And Sad, Stirred The Certainty Of Death In The Depths Of One's Soul. And
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