Active Reading: Quotes: Chapter 13

"In the bewilderment of her last years, Ursula had had very little free time to attend to the papal education of Jose Arcadio..."
-This quote is talking about how Ursula has no time to help Jose Arcadio with his training to be Pope because that is what was planned for him, for him to be Pope.

"In the darkness of the room she was able to thread a needle and sew a buttonhole and she knew when milk was about to boil"-This quote is abour how Ursula has become so blind yet she can still do a lot of things that many people younger than her can't even do.