Love Over Lust /Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  Florentino Ariza had stripped her of the virginity of a conventional marriage, more pernicious than congenital virginity or the abstinence of widowhood. He had taught her that nothing one does in bed is immoral if it helps to perpetuate love. And something else that from that time on would be her reason for living: he […]

An Exception / Gabriel Garcia Marquez

      Florentino Ariza was awake most of the night, believing that he heard Fermina Daza’s voice in the fresh river breeze, tending to his solitude with her memory, listening her sing in the respiration of the boat as it trundled on with the same steps of a big animal through gloomy darkness, until […]