#Love in the Time of Cholera

[quotespile]

To him she seemed so beautiful, so seductive, so different from ordinary people, that he could not understand why no one was as disturbed as he by the clicking of her heels on the paving stones, why no one else's heart was wild with the breeze stirred by the sighs of her veils, why everyone did not go mad with the movements of her braid, the flight of her hands, the gold of her laughter. He had not missed a single one of her gestures, not one of the indications of her character, but he did not dare approach her for fear of destroying the spell.

Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera

[smokefalls]

It was the year they fell into devastating love. Neither one could do anything except think about the other, dream about the other, and wait for letters with the same impatience they felt when they answered them.

Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera (translated by Edith Grossman)

[opheliadae]

since it’s snowing again I might as well drink cinnamon coffee

[captainfantasticalright]

El Amor en los Tiempos de los inefables.

(Love in the Time of Cholera quotes), but applied to Good Omens since it was one of the books recommended in the GO book club and as a Latin American, claro que Gabriel García Márquez es de mis favoritos.

Forbidden love, social and status differences, interrupted love, birds inside cages, the taste of bitter almonds, and a forever together? Yes. That’s Love in the Time of Cholera.

“Solo Dios sabe cuanto te quise”.

English does not do that quote justice.

“Only God knows how much I cared for you”.

[quotelr]

One could be happy not only without love, but despite it.

Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera

[gongziyus]

Ever since their return from their honeymoon, Fermina Daza had chosen her husband's clothes according to the weather and the occasion, and laid them out for him on a chair the night before so they would be ready for him when he came out of the bathroom. She could not remember when she had also begun to help him dress, and finally to dress him, and she was aware that at first she had done it for love, but for the past five years or so she had been obliged to do it regardless of the reason because he could not dress himself. They had just celebrated their golden wedding anniversary, and they were not capable of living for even an instant without the other, or without thinking about the other, and that capacity diminished as their age increased. Neither could have said if their mutual dependence was based on love or convenience, but they had never asked the question with their hands on their hearts because both had always preferred not to know the answer. Little by little she had been discovering the uncertainty of her husband's step, his mood changes, the gaps in his memory, his recent habit of sobbing while he slept, but she did not identify these as the unequivocal signs of final decay but rather as a happy return to childhood. That was why she did not treat him like a difficult old man but as a senile baby, and that deception was providential for the two of them because it put them beyond the reach of pity.

[yeahyeahno]

Good Omens Book Club

POSSIBLE GOOD OMENS SPOILERS

You have been warned, please don’t spoil yourself. This refers to books referenced in S2 of Good Omens, but I am not relating them to events or plot.

EDIT: @ineffable-romantics​​ gave some really excellent suggestions. Having rewatched and looked up their starting sentences, I think these are right. I suppose only Neil Gaiman or Douglas Mackinnon could confirm 100%. More below.

In episode 2 we get a shot of a book shelf. I have compiled the titles, though two are illegible. For one you can make out the publisher mark, the other is too far back in the shadows. I have listed them in order on the shelf, plus the books that Gabriel picked up.

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The Books:

I Capture the Castle - Dodie Smith

No Woman No Cry - Rita Marley

A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens (Mystery book, in the shadows)

The Crow Road - Iain Banks

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time - Mark Haddon

Catch-22 - Joseph Heller

Love in the Time of Cholera - Gabriel Gracia Marquez

The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath (Mystery book, publisher mark visible but I can't make it out)

Nineteen Eighty-Four - George Orwell

The Big Sleep - Raymond Chandler

The Bible

The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Catcher in the Rye - J. D. Salinger

A Series of Unfortunate Events - Lemony Snicket

Herzog - Saul Bellow

Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen

Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett

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Here’s the opening line for The Bell Jar:

‘It was a queer, sultry summer, the summer they electrocuted the Rosenbergs, and I didn’t know what I was doing in New York.”

And for A Tale of Two Cities:

‘It was the best of times, it was the worst of times...”

Gabriel reads this aloud in the bookshop (07:14), and shelves it near the Crow Road! Mystery solved? Perhaps. (Wait and see?)

“X-Ray Trivia” from Amazon Prime states “The Good Omens Book Club - Co-showrunners Neil Gaiman and Douglas Mackinnon would love for everyone to read these books. Douglas Mackinnon put these books in alphabetical order, starting with their first sentence.

All the books ‘Jim’ has reshelved so far by alphabetical order of ... the first line in each. Each book’s first line begins with ‘I’.

Gabriel shelving a book near Iain Banks’ ‘The Crow Road.’

[haveyoureadthisbook-poll]

[litsnaps]

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

[from my flickr files:: a heart to heart chat with my brother]

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“By the time she had finished unburdening herself, someone had turned off the moon” ― Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera

[quotespile]

Wisdom comes to us when it can no longer do any good.

Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera

[raurquiz]

#HappyBirthday @JohnLeguizamo #JohnLeguizamo #actor #CasualtiesofWar #SuperMarioBros #CarlitosWay #spawn #ToWongFoo #RomeoandJuliet #ThePest #SummerofSam #MoulinRouge #LoveintheTimeofCholera #TheLincolnLawyer #TheCounselor #JohnWick #ViolentNight #TheMandalorian #IceaAge #Encanto

[opheliadae]

coconut milk latte & love in the time of cholera

[wehavewords]

“I have waited for this opportunity for more than half a century, to repeat to you once again my vow of eternal fidelity and everlasting love.”

Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera

[thebookwormdaydreamer]

Some books I recently got from a nearby used bookstore. I really like their selection and will visit it more often.

[quotessentially]

From Gabriel García Márquez’s Love in the Time of Cholera