One Hundred Years of Solitude

glass, and yet no one ever said to her, Good morning, Fernanda, did you sleep well? Nor had they ...

things against her behind her back, calling her church mouse, calling her Pharisee, calling her craf ...

more when that evil José Arcadio Segundo said that the damnation of the family had come when it o ...

of Alba, a lady of such lineage that she made the liver of presidents wives quiver, a noble dame ...

that so many knives and forks and spoons were not meant for a human being but for a centipede, and ...

daytime and red wine at night, and the only one on the whole coast who could take pride in the fa ...

imagine, with those very words, and so that Renata, her own daughter, who through an oversight had ...

the rest of the family, but in any case she had the right to expect a little more consideration from her hus ...

from anything, where she wove funeral wreaths as a pastime, since her godfather had sent a ...

and had brought her to that frying pan of hell where a person could not breathe because of t ...

was a, just the opposite of her, who was a lady in a palace or a pigsty, at the table or in ...

because they at least had the honesty to put a red light at their door, swinishness like that, just im ...

remaining intact in their graves with their skin smooth like the cheeks of a bride and their eyes al ...

Fernanda did not pay him any mind, but she lowered her voice. That night at dinner the exasperating ...

rancor. Nevertheless, when her husband asked if it was not possible to have a soft- boiled egg, she ...

encyclopedia, as always, and Fernanda pretended to straighten out Memes room just so that he could li ...

him even there, provoking him, tormenting him, hovering about him with her implacable horsefly buzzing, s ...

had married Jonahs wife, who was so content with the story of the whale. Aureliano Segundo listened to her ...

contrary, raised her pitch. I dont have any reason to shut up, she said. Anyone who doesnt want to ...

one after the other he smashed them onto the floor. Fernanda was frightened because until then she ...