English P2 Quotables

“The time has come for you to be tamed”

Divina Flor “knew that she was destined for Santiago Nasar’s furtive bed”

“on a sweaty steed, / riding straight into the seething bedchamber” (Rubens’ Women)”

Maria Alejandrina Cervantes “was the most elegant and the most tender woman I have ever known”

“a house with open doors, with several rooms for rent and an enormous courtyard for dancing lit by lantern gourds bought in the Chinese bazaars”

“His back alone has twenty different faces” (Bodybuilders’ Contest)

Maria Alejandrina: “It was she who did away with my generation’s virginity”

“Titanettes” / “even the sky bulges here” / “pudgy angels and [...] chubby god” (Rubens’ Women)

“Give me a prejudice and I will move the world”

“Love can be learned too”

“he prompts me with a gentle clinking of his chain” (Brueghel’s Two Monkeys)

“Like a butterfly with no will whose sentence has always been written”

“It’s possible I fell facing the city”

“‘We killed him openly,’ Pedro Vicario said, ‘but we’re innocent.’ ‘Perhaps before God,’ said Father Amador.”

“For if that’s all life is about, / the head / was happy” (Experiment)

“They all ended up feeling different from themselves and like the ones they weren’t”

“Sealed boxcars are carrying names” (Still)

“‘It wasn’t raining,’ Pablo Vicario remembered. ‘Just the opposite,’ Pedro recalled.”

“Although we’re different (we concur) / just as two drops of water are” (Nothing Twice)

Angela “was born like the great queens of history [...] with the umbilical cord wrapped around her neck.”

“You were saved because you were the first. You were saved because you were the last” (Could Have)

[Bayardo’s sisters after he nearly drank himself to death]: “wailing loudly with such high-pitched shrieks that they seemed to be shouts of joy”

“I’m here. [...] Hurry! I’m here!” (Parable)