One Hundred Years of Solitude

as it was said that the French matrons did and as she had wanted to do with Pietro Crespi at the ...

the needles, but what pained her most and enraged her most and made her most bitter was t ...

scalding. The only thing that she asked of God for many years was that he would not visit on her t ...

place, in the same position, and under the same light when they brought her the news of ...

shroud for Rebeca. Later on, when Aureliano Triste told how he had seen her changed into an apparition with ...

a wig for her from the hair of the saints. She would manufacture a beautiful corpse, with the linen shr ...

been done out of love, but she would not allow herself to become upset by the confusion and we ...

happened. At the final moment, however, Amaranta did not feel frustrated, but on the contrary, free of all ...

hair, with a sort of antiquated look, and with a certain resemblance to Pilar Ternera during the time ...

hour was assigned before that of Rebeca, but ordered her to begin sewing her own shroud on the next sixth of A ...

Amaranta ordered some rough flax and spun the thread herself. She did it so carefully that ...

It was then that she understood the vicious circle of Colonel Aureliano Buendías little gold fishes. ...

Pietro Crespis smell of lavender at dusk and rescue Rebeca from her slough of misery, not out ...

however, was already tainted with rancor. But by then her acceptance of her fate was so deep that she ...

the last stitch on the night of February 4, and without revealing the motives, she suggested to Me ...

caused a breakdown at the power plant. But on the following day, at eight in the morning, she t ...

up for a life of meanness with one last favor to the world, and she thought that no one was in a be ...

want to write gave Amaranta verbal messages, which she wrote down in a notebook with the name ...

was as straight and as thin as ever. If it had not been for her hardened cheekbones and a few missing te ...

the coffin as she stood in the parlor, as if it were for a new dress. She showed such vigor in her last ...