“She locked herself in her room, refused to eat or drink, and when at last he persuaded her to open the door, first with threats and then with poorly dissimulated pleading, he found a wounded panther who would never be fifteen years old again.”
Quote from “Love in the Time of Cholera” (Original title: “El amor en los tiempos del cólera”) by Gabriel García Márquez.
I read this book in Norwegian, and could not find the quote in English with a corresponding page number. In the Norwegian version it was on page 99.
Lys Wordsmithery 