# Quote — Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Love in the Time of Cholera

> 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.

- Author: [Gabriel Garcia Marquez](https://www.leafyquotes.com/gabriel-garcia-marquez.md)
- Book: [Love in the Time of Cholera](https://www.leafyquotes.com/gabriel-garcia-marquez/love-in-the-time-of-cholera.md)
- Page: 140
- Original (es): Le parecía tan bella, tan seductora, tan distinta de la gente común, que no entendía por qué nadie se trastornaba como él con las castañuelas de sus tacones en los adoquines de la calle, ni se le desordenaba el corazón con el aire de los suspiros de sus volantes, ni se volvía loco de amor todo el mundo con los vientos de su trenza, el vuelo de sus manos, el oro de su risa. No había perdido un gestu suyo, ni un indicio de su carácter, pero no se atrevía a acercársele por el temor de malograr el encanto.
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- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/gabriel-garcia-marquez/love-in-the-time-of-cholera/to-him-she

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