Translation for "pensaste sino" to english

Pensaste sino

• you thought but
• but thought

Translation examples

you thought but

Quieres decirle que cuando llamó a Nueva York y oíste su voz por primera vez en dieciocho años para decirte que había muerto la abuela («Pensé que querrías saberlo», fueron sus palabras), te inclinaste sobre tu escritorio porque te fallaban las piernas, sintiendo cómo toda una vida de silencio se derrumbaba, y no fue en la abuela en quien pensaste, sino en Nonso, y en él, en el aguacate y en ese verano húmedo en el reino amoral de la niñez, y en todas las cosas que nunca te habías permitido pensar, que habías reducido al mínimo y escondido sin más.
You want to say that when he called you in New York, the first time you were hearing his voice in eighteen years, to tell you that Grandmama had died—I thought you would want to know, were his words—you leaned on your office desk, your legs turning molten, a lifetime of silence collapsing, and it was not Grandmama you thought of, it was Nonso, and it was him, Dozie, and it was the avocado tree and it was that humid summer in the amoral kingdom of your childhood and it was all the things you had not allowed yourself to think about, that you had flattened to a thin sheet and tucked away.