feels like reckless driving when we’re talking
it’s fun while it lasts, and it’s faster than walking
but no one’s going to sympathize when we crash
they’ll say “you hit what you head for, you get what you ask”
and we’ll say we didn’t know, no we didn’t even try
one minute there was road beneath us, and the next [...]
Let me tell you something. Something besides the fact that I haven’t posted a real entry for months. Something I want to say to you but I can’t, because it’s like trying to hold back a sneeze, or worse, a deep down belly laugh that threatens to come out my nose in an obscene exhaled [...]
Moreover, a clandestine life shared with a man who was never completely hers, and in which they often knew the sudden explosion of happiness, did not seem to her a condition to be despised. On the contrary: life had shown her that perhaps it was exemplary.
- Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera
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