Active Reading-Quotes:Chapter Eight

"Any children will be born with the tail of a pig."

Amaranta says this Aureliano Jose because he wants to marry her but she tells him that their children would be born with pig tails.

"We've done our duty by baptizing them"

-Ursula says this because all of Aureliano's seventeen children have come to be baptized and Ursula at first gave them gifts and money but she suddenly stopped and said they already were doing theire job. In other words, it was enough to baptize them.