Sublime

But curiosity was greater than fear,

consternation.

There is an artist my mother loved, Juan Gabriel, who was once asked in an interview if he was gay. His reply: What’s understood need not be said.

taciturn

adroit

abnegation,

Taciturn, silent, insensible to the new breath of vitality that was shaking the house, Colonel Aureliano Buendía could understand only that the secret of a good old age is simply an honorable pact with solitude.

She was always enamored of someone and could not live otherwise.