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A Long Petal of the Sea

Book by Isabel Allende · 6 quotes · Chile, Spanish Civil War, Cuckoldry

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“During the years he spent in Venezuela he thought he had once and for all overcome the solemnity that had been an essential part of his nature from childhood, as though he was in mourning for all the world's suffering, violence and evil. Faced with so many disasters, happiness seemed to him obscene. In love with Roser in the green, warm country of Venezuela, he had vanquished the temptation to cloak himself in sadness.”

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“My heart is broken, he told himself. It was at that moment he understood the profound meaning of that common phrase: he thought he heard the sound of glass breaking and felt that the essence of his being was pouring out until he was empty, with no memory of the past, no awareness of the present,no hope for the future. He concluded this must be what it was like to bleed to death, like so many men he had been unable to help. There was too much pain, too much that was despicable in this war between brothers; defeat had to be better than to continue killing and dying.”

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“Nadie protestaba; los trabajadores aplastados habían perdido sus derechos, podían ser despedidos en cualquier momento y agradecían cualquier sueldo, porque en la puerta había una fila de desempleados esperando que les dieran una oportunidad. Era el paraíso de los empresarios. La versión oficial era de un país ordenado, limpio, apaciguado, que iba camino a la prosperidad. Pensaba en los torturados, los muertos, los rostros de los hombres que conoció en prisión y los que desaparecieron.”

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“He had always suspected that on her travels she had taken a lover, or perhaps even several, but the confirmation of this longstanding, serious love awoke in him retrospective jealousy that would have destroyed the happiness of the moment had Roser allowed it. With her implacable common sense, she showed him that she had not robbed him of anything to give to Aitor. She had not loved him any the less, because that love was always hidden in another chamber of her heart and didn't interfere with the rest of her life.”

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