Gabriel García Márquez · 146 pages
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“Everyone will have gone then except us, because we're tied to this soil by a roomful of trunks where the household goods and clothing of grandparents are kept, and the canopies that my parenrs' horses used when they came to Macondo, fleeing from the war. We've been sown into this soil by the memory of the remote dead whose bones can no longer be found twenty fathoms under the earth. The trunks have been in the room ever since the last days of the war; and they'll be there this afternoon when we come back from the burial, if that final wind hasn't passed, the one that will sweep away Macondo, its bedrooms full of lizards and its silent people devastated by memories.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, quote from Leaf Storm and Other Stories
“As I hear him, I understand that he's not more moronic because of the brandy than he is because of his cowardice.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, quote from Leaf Storm and Other Stories
“След две седмици Меме беше отворила дюкянчето си и дори си имаше шевна машина. Беше купила нова Domestic с парите, които той натрупа у дома. За мене това беше оскърбление. Така и казах на баща ти. Но макар и да не реагираше на възмущението ми, личеше, че е по-скоро доволен от постъпката си, отколкото разкаян, сякаш беше спасил душата си, противопоставяйки на благоприличието и честта на нашия дом пословичната си търпимост, своето разбиране и великодушие. И дори известно неблагоразумие. Казах му: «Ти хвърли на свинете най-хубавото от убежденията си.» А той, както винаги, ми отвърна:
— И това ще проумееш някой ден.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, quote from Leaf Storm and Other Stories
“По това време банановата компания ни беше изстискала докрай и беше напуснала Макондо заедно с отпадъците от отпадъците, които ни бе донесла. С тях си беше отишла и окапалата шума, последните следи на цветущото Макондо до 1915 година. Останало бе едно разорено село с четири бедни, тъмни магазина, населено с безработни, озлобени хора, измъчвани от спомена за едно цветущо минало и от горчилката на едно унило, застинало настояще. Нищо друго нямаше тогава в бъдещето освен един мрачен и тревожен неделен ден с избори.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, quote from Leaf Storm and Other Stories
“Навярно на този свят няма нищо по-страшно от човешка развалина. Още повече на тоя ничий гражданин, който се надигна в хамака, като ни видя, че влизаме, и самият той изглеждаше покрит със слой от праха, който покриваше всичко в стаята. Главата му беше стоманеносива, а жестоките му жълти очи все още пазеха могъщата вътрешна сила, която бях виждал и у дома. Имах чувството, че стига само да докоснем тялото му с нокът, то ще се разпадне, ще се превърне в купчина човешки стърготини.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, quote from Leaf Storm and Other Stories
Gabriel García Márquez
Born place: in Aracataca, Magdalena, Colombia
Born date March 6, 1927
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