A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings Quotes

“He seemed to be in so many places at the same time that they grew to think that he’d be duplicated, that he was reproducing himself all through the house, and the exasperated and unhinged Elisenda shouted that it was awful living in that hell full of angels.”
― Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez, Un señor muy viejo con unas alas enormes

“What surprised him most, however, was the logic of his wings. They seemed so natural on that completely human organism that he couldn’t understand why other men didn’t have them too.”
― Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez, Un señor muy viejo con unas alas enormes

“The unluckiest of the Caribbean’s sick came, in search of cures: a poor woman who, since childhood, had been counting the beats of her heart so long that she had run out of numbers to count; a Jamaican who, because of the tormenting sound the stars made, never slept; a sleepwalker who rose from bed at night, and in sleep undid all the things he had done in waking; and many other ailments too, less serious in nature.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, Un señor muy viejo con unas alas enormes