Fermina Daza from Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s Love in the Time of Cholera
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Sólo porque alguien no te ame como tu quieres, no significa que no te ame con todo su ser.
– Gabriel García Márquez (via descomunal) Via FRAGMENTOSWith an innocence that could not be feigned, she asked what had happened.
‘I was bitten by a little rabid dog with a tail more than a meter long.’
Sierva Maria wanted to see the wound. Delaura removed the bandage, and with her index finger she touched the crimson halo of swelling as if it were a burning coal, and laughed for the first time.
‘I’m worse than the plague,’ she said.
Delaura responded not with the Gospels but with Garcilaso:
“Well may you do this to one who can endure it.







