Jordan Dotson

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The most beautiful city in the world

May 27, 2016 By Jordan

Despite the perpetual rain, the sordid merchants, and the Homeric vulgarity of its carriage drivers, she would always remember Paris as the most beautiful city in the world, not because of what it was or was not in reality, but because it was linked to the memory of her happiest years.

…from Love in the Time of Cholera, by Gabriel García Márquez.

girl reading in paris

Filed Under: Prose Porn, Things I wish I'd written Tagged With: Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Love in the Time of Cholera

The Gold of her Laughter

January 20, 2016 By Jordan

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.

…from Love in the Time of Cholera, by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Zhang Jingna

Filed Under: Things I wish I'd written Tagged With: Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Love in the Time of Cholera