For a week, almost without speaking, they went ahead like sleepwalkers…

Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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For a week, almost without speaking, they went ahead like sleepwalkers through a universe of grief, lighted only by the tenuous reflection of luminous insects, and their lungs were overwhelmed by a suffocating smell of blood. ✨ Gabriel Garcia Marquez (2014). One Hundred Years of Solitude, p.16, Penguin UK
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