She wanted to be herself again, to recover all that she had been obliged to give up in half a century of servitude that had doubtless made her happy but which, once her husband was dead, did not leave her even the vestiges of her identity.


Love in the Time of Cholera (ed. Penguin UK, 2014) - ISBN: 9780241968574

Gabriel García Márquez Quotes

She wanted to be herself again, to recover all that she had been obliged to give up in half a century of servitude that had doubtless made her happy...

She wanted to be herself again, to recover all that she had been obliged to give up in half a century of servitude that had doubtless made her happy...

She wanted to be herself again, to recover all that she had been obliged to give up in half a century of servitude that had doubtless made her happy...

She wanted to be herself again, to recover all that she had been obliged to give up in half a century of servitude that had doubtless made her happy...