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By two o'clock in the morning they had each drunk three brandies, and he knew, in truth, that he was not the man she was looking for, and he was glad to know it. "Bravo, lionlady," he said when he left. "We have killed the tiger. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
A woman who was washing clothes in the river during the hottest time of the day ran screaming down the main street in an alarming state of commotion.
"It's coming," she finally explained. "Something frightful, like a kitchen dragging a village behind it. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
It's like a firstborn son: you spend your life working for him, sacrificing everything for him, and at the moment of truth, he does just as he pleases. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
And in the space that he had occupied in her memory she allowed a field of poppies to bloom. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
In the beginning, when the world was new and nothing had a name, my father took me to see the ice. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The children would remember for the rest of their lives the august solemnity with which their father, devastated by his prolonged vigil and by the wraith of his imagination, revealed his discovery to them: 'The world is round, like an orange. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
He was the lover who never showed his face, the man most avid for love as well as most niggardly with it, the man who gave nothing and wanted everything, the man who did not allow anyone to leave a trace of her passing in his heart, the hunter lying in ambush. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Sex is one's consolation when love is not enough -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Nu exista pe lume leac care sa tamaduiasca ceea ce nu tamaduieste fericirea/ There is no cure in this world which heals what happiness does not heal. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
My heart has more rooms in it than a whore house -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
But when a woman decides to sleep with a man, there is no wall she will not scale, no fortress she will not destroy, no moral consideration she will not ignore at its very root: there is no God worth worrying about. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
I think that the idea that I'm writing for many more people than I ever imagined has created a certain general responsibility that is literary and political. There's even pride involved, in not wanting to fall short of what I did before. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Intrigued by that enigma, he dug so deeply into her sentiments that in search of interest he found love, because by trying to make her love him he ended up falling in love with her. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Each man is master of his own death, and all that we can do when the time comes is to help him die without fear of pain. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
No, not rich, he said. I am a poor man with money, not the same thing. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Into your hands at last I have come vanquished." She obeyed. "Where I know that I must die, -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
But the next morning, while night owls slept, I climbed trembling to her cubicle and woke her, weeping aloud with a crazed love that lasted until it was carried away without mercy by the violent wind of real life. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Madly in love after so many years of sterile complicity, they enjoyed the miracle of loving each other as much at the table as in bed, and they grew to be so happy that even when they were two worn-out old people, they kept on blooming like little children and playing like dogs. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
I adore you because you made me a whore. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Don't worry," he would say, smiling. "Dying is much more difficult than one imagines. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
So many knives and forks and spoons were not meant for a human being but for a centipede ... -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Wherever they might be they always remember that the past was a lie, that memory has no return, that every spring gone by could never be recovered, and that the wildest and most tenacious love was an ephemeral truth in the end. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Florentino Ariza, on the other hand, had not stopped thinking of
her for a single moment since Fermina Daza had rejected him out of
hand after a long and troubled love affair fifty-one years, nine months,
and four days ago. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
There was a house at the foot of the tower, close to the thunder of the waves breaking against the cliffs, where love was more intense because it seemed like a shipwreck. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Our code of ethics supposes that wedoctors are made of wood . -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
That recurrent dream had the quality of not being remembered except within the dream itself -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Opposite her, calming his peaceful hunger, was old Jacob, a man who had loved her so much and for so long that he could no longer conceive of any suffering that didn't start with his wife. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
She searched the truth with an anguish almost as great as her terrible fear of finding it . -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Each grape she pulled off grew back again on the cluster. In the dream it was evident that the girl had spent many years at that infinite window trying to finish the cluster, and was in no hurry to so because she knew that in the last grape lay death. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
I nee to reason for a plague, ... As far as I know no comets or eclipses have been forecast, and our sins are not great enough for God to be concerned with us. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Shame has poor memory. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
He was healthier than the rest of us, but when you listened with the stethoscope you could hear the tears bubbling inside his heart. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The best friend a person has," he would say at that time, "is one who has just died. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Never stop smiling not even when you're sad, someone might fall in love with your smile. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Well," Aureliano said. "Tell me what it is."
Pilar Ternera bit her lips with a sad smile.
"That you would be good in a war," she said. "Where you put your eye, you put your bullet. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
I plead youth as a mitigating circumstance. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Ursula wondered if it was not preferable to lie down once and for all in her grave and let them throw the earth over her, and she asked God, without fear, if He really believe that people were made of iron in order to bear so many troubles and mortifications. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Let's forget about each other forever," she told him. "we're too old for this sort of thing now. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Your first realization when you become an important person is that all day and all night, whatever the circumstances, people want to hear you talk about yourself. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
There are things you do only for love. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The colonel, pursued by sinister remorse for having killed a man in an affair of honor, brought everything necessary for recreating the past as far away as possible from his bad memories -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
He was still too young to know that the heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good, and that thanks to this artifice we manage to endure the burden of the past. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Nostalgia, as always, had wiped away the bad memories and magnified the good ones. no one was safe from its onslaught. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Life ... was nothing more than a system of atavistic contracts, banal ceremonies, preordained words, with which people entertained each other ... The dominant sign in that paradise of provincial frivolity was the fear of the unknown -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
I was on the verge of ruin but well-compensated by the miracle of still being alive at my age. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
There is bound to be someone driven mad by love who will give you the chance to study the effects of gold cyanide on a cadaver. And when you do find one, observe with care, they almost always have crystals in their heart -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
HE had fled from her in an attempt to wipe out her memory, not only through distance but by means of a muddled fury that his companions a arms took to be boldness, but the more her image wallowed in the dung hill of war, the more the was resembled Amarant. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
It was, at last, real life, with my heart safe and condemned to die of happy love in the joyful agony of any day after my hundredth birthday. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
They looked like two children, she told me. And that thought frightened her, because she'd always felt that only children are capable of everything. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The world isn't what it once was because there aren't many men like you left. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The most important thing Paris gave me was a perspective on Latin America. It taught me the differences between Latin America and Europe and among the Latin American countries themselves through the Latins I met there. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
I would like for my books to have been recognized posthumously, at least in capitalist countries, where they turn you into a kind of merchandise. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Gaston was not only a fierce lover, with endless wisdom and imagination, but he was also, perhaps, the first man in the history of the species who had made an emergency landing and had come close to killing himself and his sweetheart simply to make love in a field of violets. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Before that, my life was always agitated by a tangle of tricks, feints and illusions intended to outwit the countless lures that tried to turn me into anything but a writer. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
...he did not dare to play forbidden games with a woman who had proven too many times that she knew the dark side of the moon -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Thinking that it would console him, she took a piece of charcoal and erased the innumerable loves that he still owed her for, and she voluntarily brought up her own most solitary sadnesses so as not to leave him alone in his weeping. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
[F]or fate granted him the immense good fortune of losing his memory. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
His place was always set at the table, in case he rturned from the dead without warning . -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The ferocity of Santiago Nasar's fate, which had collected twenty years of happiness from him not only with his death but also with the dismemberment of his body and its dispersion and extermination. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
He is ugly and sad ... but he is all love.
Love in the Time of Cholera -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
He is ugly and sad... but he is all love. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Love is the only thing that interests me", he said.
"The trouble," his uncle said to him," is that without river navigation, there is no love". -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Bad luck doesn't have any chinks in it," he said with deep bitterness. "I was born a son of a bitch and I'm going to die a son of a bitch. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Fatality makes us invisible. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
He was surprised to discover that when rich people were starving they looked so much like the poor -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
I discovered the miracle that all things that sound are music, including the dishes and silverware in the dishwasher, as long as they fulfill the illusion of showing us where life is heading. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
He himself, facing a firing squad, would not understand too well the concatenation of the series of subtle but irrevocable accidents that bought him to that point. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
An early-rising man is a good spouse but a bad husband. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Under the burning sun on the street I began to feel the weight of my ninety years, and to count minute by minute the minutes of the nights I had left before I died. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Nobody deserves your tears, but whoever deserves them will not make you cry. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Delaura was aware of his own awkwardness with women. To him they seemed endowed with an untransferable use of reason that allowed them to navigate without difficulty among the hazards of reality. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Arcadio had seen her many times working in her parents' small food store but he had never taken a good look at her because she had that rare virtue of never existing completely except at the opportune moment. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Florentino Ariza always forgot when he should not have that women, and Prudencia Pitre more than any other, always think about the hidden meanings of questions more than about the questions themselves. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
But when they changed their plans time and time again, the dates became confused, the periods were mislaid, and one day seemed so much like another that one could not feel them pass. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
He was aware he did not love her. He had married her because he liked her haughtiness, her seriousness, her strength, and also because of some vanity on his part, but as she kissed him for the first time he was sure there would be obstacle to their inventing true love. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
But meanwhile, we've got to sustain the illusions of those who stay with something. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
It is a triumph of life that old people lose their memories of inessential things ... -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Look at the air, listen to the buzzing of the sun, the same as yesterday and the day before. Today is Monday too. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Inspiration gives no warnings. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
levitation by means of chocolate -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Our two postcard hearts were frightened in unison under the tenacious look of the unfathomable old man who kept on eating one banana after another -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Do not allow me to forget you -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The wind from the Caribbean blew in the windows along with the racket made by the birds, and Fermina Daza felt in her blood the wild beating of her free will. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Little by little she had been discovering the uncertainty of her husband's step, his mood changes, the gaps in his memory, his recent habit of sobbing while he slept, but she did not identify these as the unequivocal signs of final decay but rather as a happy return to childhood. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
A lost bird appeared in the court and was half an hour jumping around between the spikenard. It sang a progressive note, rising an octave at a time, until it became so acute that it was necessary to imagine it. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Fiction was invented the day Jonas arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Reading had become his insatiable vice. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Common prick of conscience. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
America is half a world gone mad. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Why do you insist on talking about what does not exist? -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Make no mistake: peaceful madmen are ahead of the future. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
She had never imagined that curiosty was one of the many masks of love . -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The past was a lie, memory has no return, every spring gone by could never be recovered, and the wildest and most tenacious love is an ephemeral truth in the end -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The eternal loves of the high seas ended when the port came in sight. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Dogs were not loyal but servile, that cats were opportunists and traitors, -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
In a sudden inspiration, Florentino Ariza opened a can of red paint that was within reach of the bunk, wet his index finger, and painted the pubis of the beautiful pigeon fancier with an arrow of blood pointing south, and on her belly the words: This pussy is mine. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
All human beings have three lives: public, private, and secret. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
People have three lives: the public life, the private life and the secret life ... -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The words I am about to express:
They now have their own crowned goddess. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
On the other hand, for years I did not listen to Mozart after I was assaulted by the perverse idea that Mozart does not exist, because when he is good he is Beethoven and when he is bad he is Haydn. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
T nightfall, at
the oppressive moment of transition, a storm of carnivorous mosquitoes rose
out of the swamps, and a tender breath of human shit, warm and sad, stirred
the certainty of death in the depths of one's soul. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
We had made love without love, half-dressed most of the time and always in the dark so we could imagine ourselves as better than we were. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
They were people whose lives were slow, who did not see themselves growing old, or falling sick, or dying, but who disappeared little by little in their own time, turning into memories, mists from other days, until they were absorbed into oblivion. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Fame invades your private life. It takes away from the time that you spend with friends, and the time that you can work. It tends to isolate you from the real world. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The only wars here will be civil wars, and those are like killing your own mother. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Both looked back then on the wild revelry ... and they lamented that it had cost them so much of their lives to find the paradise of shared solitude. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
He found a glimmer of hope in the ruins of disaster -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
My God, if I had a heart, I would write my hate on ice, and wait for the sun to show. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Without intending to, without even knowing it, he demonstrated with his life that his father had been right when he repeated until his dying day that there was no one with more common sense, no stonecutter more obstinate, no manager so lucid or dangerous, than a poet. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
I must try and break through the cliches about Latin America. Superpowers and other outsiders have fought over us for centuries in ways that have nothing to do with our problems. In reality we are all alone. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
I don't know who said that novelists read the novels of others only to figure out how they are written. I believe it's true. We aren't satisfied with the secrets exposed on the surface of the page: we turn the book around to find the seams. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The driver warned me: Be careful, scholar, they kill in that house. I replied: If it's for love it doesn't matter. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
I love you not for whom you are, but who I am when i'm by your side -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Watching him getting ready to leave, Judge Arcadio thought that life is nothing but a continuous succession of opportunities for survival. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Between the covers of the books that no one had ever read again, in the old parchments damaged by dampness, a livid flower had prospered, and in the air that had been the purest and brightest in the house an unbearable smell of rotten memories floated. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The day shit is worth money, poor people will be born without an asshole -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
A great commotion immobilized her in her center of gravity, planted her in her place, and her defensive will was demolished by the irresistible anxiety to discover what the orange bells and whistles and the invisible globes on the other side of death were like. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
They were so close to each other that they preferred death to separation. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Those who do not sing cannot even imagine the joy of singing. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Nevertheless, no matter how much they killed themselves with work, no matter how much money they eked out, and no matter how many schemes they thought of, their guardian angels were asleep with fatigue while they put in coins and took them out trying to get just
enough to live with. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Love does not die, when someone gets old, people get old, because they can not love anymore. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
I told her about my life, I read into her ear the first drafts of my Sunday columns in which, without my saying so, she and she alone was present. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Aren't you afraid you will be damned?'
'I believe I already am, but not by the Holy Spirit,' said Delaura without alarm. 'I have always believed He attributes more importance to love than to faith. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The scalpel is the greatest proof of the failure of medicine. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Life is but a continual succession of opportunities for surviving. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
I can't think of any film that improved on a good novel, but I can think of many good films that came from very bad novels. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
And taught him the only thing he had to learn about love: that nobody teaches life anything. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Thing in good marriage is not happiness but stabilty . -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Amaranta would sigh, laugh, and dream of a second homeland of handsome men and beautiful women who spoke a childlike language, with ancient cities of whose past grandeur only the cats among the rubble remained. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Her copy of the photograph had been lost, and Hildebranda's was almost invisible, but they could both recognize themselves through the mists of disenchantment: young and beautiful as they would never be again. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
A falcon who chases a warlike crane can only hope for a life of pain. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
In reality they were distracted letters, intended to keep the coals alive without putting her hand in the fire, while Florentino Ariza burned himself in every line. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Just imagine, a cow on the balcony of the nation, what an awful thing, what a shitty country ... -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
His mysterious resources had awakened in her a curiosity that was difficult to resist, but she had never imagined that curiosity was one of the many masks of love. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Gabito isn't deceiving anyone," she said with an innocent smile, "but sometimes it happens that even God needs to make weeks that are two years long. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Enemy makes better use of our intelligence than of our errors. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
All my life, I've been frightened at the moment I sit down to write. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
There was no sleeper more elegant than she, with her curved body posed for a dance and her hand across her forehead, but there was also no one more ferocious when anyone disturbed the sensuality of her thinking she was still asleep when she no longer was. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
She had that rare virtue of never existing completely except for that opportune moment -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
I caught the smell of a warm woman and I saw the eyes of an insomniac leopard in the darkness ... -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
She was impressed by its simplicity and its seriousness, and the rage she had cultivated with so much love for so many days faded away on the spot. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Only a person without principles can be so complaisant towards grief. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
If I were a woman. I need to be loved a great deal. My great problem is to be loved more, and that's why I write. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Florentino Ariza was on the bed, lying on his back and trying to regain control, once again not knowing what to do with the skin of the tiger he had slain. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
You people have a religion of death that fills you with the joy and courage to confront it ... I do not. I believe the only essential thing is to be alive.- Abrenucio -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
This was when she asked him whether it was true that love conquered all, as the songs said. 'It is true', he replied, 'but you would do well not to believe it. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
An artisan without memories, whose only dream was to die of fatigue in the oblivion and misery of his little gold fishes. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
I don't have to say so because people can see it from leagues away. I am ugly, shy and anachronistic, but by dint of not wanting to be those things I have pretended to be just the opposite. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Don't stay with Urdanetea, he told him. And don't go with your family to the United States. It's omnipotent and terrible, and its tale of liberty will end in a plague of miseries for us all. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Time was not passing ... it was turning in a circle ... -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Let me soap you," he murmured.
"Thank you for your good intentions," she said, "but my two hands are quite enough."
"Even if it's just your back," the foreigner begged.
"That would be silly," she said. "People never soap their backs. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
In her final years she would still recall the trip that, with the perverse lucidity of nostalgia, became more and more recent in her memory. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Bishop blessed him and helped him to his feet.
"May God have mercy on you," he said. And erased him from his heart. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
She nailed it to the wall with her well-aimed dart, like a butterfly with no will whose sentence has always been written. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
In that way the long-awaited visit, for which both had prepared questions and had even anticipated answers, was once more the usual everyday conversation. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
On the morning that they were going to kill him, Santiago Nasar got up at five-thirty in the morning to wait for the boat bishop was coming on. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
he could not understand how people arrived at the extreme of waging war over things that could not be touched with the hand -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
No old man forgets where he has hidden his treasure. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Faulkner is a writer who has had much to do with my soul, but Hemingway is the one who had the most to do with my craft - not simply for his books, but for his astounding knowledge of the aspect of craftsmanship in the science of writing. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
He dared to explore her withered neck w/his fingertips ... her hips w/their decaying bones, her thighs with their aging veins. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Her laugh was sad and taciturn, seemingly detached from any feeling of the moment, like something she kept in the cupboard and took out only when she had to, using it with no feeling of ownership, as if the infrequency of her smiles had made her forget the normal way to use them. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
A true friend is the one who holds your hand and touches your heart -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Trying to provoke him into a terrifying sentence, I said: The only definitive thing is death. Yes, he said, but it isn't easy to get there when one's condition is as good as yours. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Become a better person and be sure to know who you are, before meeting someone new and hoping that person knows who you are -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
He was another person, despite his firm decision and anguished effort to continue to be the same man he had been before his mortal encounter with love.
The truth is that he was never the same again. Winning back Fermina Daza was the sole purpose of his life -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Even when I don't have to write, I arrange it every morning with the pointless rigor that has made me lose so many lovers. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
And normality was precisely the most fearful part of that infinite war: nothing ever happened. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Tell him yes. Even if you are dying of fear, even if you are sorry later, because whatever you do, you will be sorry all the rest of your life if you say no. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
It was said that the hernia whistled like a lugubrious bird on stormy nights and twisted in unbearable pain when a buzzard feather was burned nearby, but no one complained about those discomforts because a large, well-carried rupture was, more than anything else, a display of masculine honor. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
They kept a clean and neat house. Rebeca would open it wide at dawn and the wind from the graveyard would come in through the windows and go out through the doors to the yard and leave the whitewashed walls and furniture tanned by the saltpeter of the dead. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Florentino Ariza was awake most of the night, thinking that he heard the voice of Fermina Daza in the fresh river breeze, ministering to his solitude with her memory, hearing her sing in the respiration of the boat as it moved like a great animal in the darkness. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The secret of a good old age is simply an honorable pact with solitude. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
I've said that anyone who doesn't contradict himself is a dogmatist, and every dogmatist is a reactionary. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
A person does not belong to a place until there is someone dead under the ground. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Only God knows how much I love you. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
It had to teach her to think of love as a state of grace: not the means to anything but the alpha and omega, an end it itself. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
He seemed to be in so many places at the same time that they grew to think that he'd be duplicated, that he was reproducing himself all through the house, and the exasperated and unhinged Elisenda shouted that it was awful living in that hell full of angels. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
He would say: "You treat me as if I were just anybody." She would roar with the laughter of a free female and say: "Not at all: as if you were nobody. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The sunken ships were visible even on the bottom, for it seemed as if they had sunk along with their own space and time, so that they were still illumined by the same eleven o'clock sun that was shining on Saturday, June 9, when they went down. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
If you love something - let. If it is yours - it will come back. I love you not because of who you are, but for who I am when I'm with you. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
I'll have plenty of time to rest when I die, but this eventuality is not yet part of my plans. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
I became aware that the invincible power that has moved the world is unrequited, not happy, love. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
She sensed it, saw my eyes wet with tears, and only then must have discovered I was no longer the man I had been, and I endured her glance with a courage I never thought I had. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Dr. Urbino replied without looking at her: "I did not know that fellow was a poet." And then he wiped him from his memory, because among other things, his profession had accustomed him to the ethical management of forgetfulness. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
If you have to go crazy, please go crazy all by yourself! Ursula shouted. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
And there's nothing more dangerous than a written memoir. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Amputees suffer pains, cramps, itches in the leg that is no longer there. That is how she felt without him, feeling his presence where he no longer was. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Don't open that door," she said. "The hallway is full of difficult dreams." And I asked her: "How do you know?" And she told me: "Because I was there a moment ago and I had to come back when I discovered I was sleeping on my heart. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The ancient priest who had taken Father Angel's place and whose name no one had bothered to find out awaited God's mercy stretched out casually in a hammock, tortured by arthritis and the insomnia of doubt while the lizards and rats fought over the inheritance of the nearby church. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Very well, I will marry you if you promise not to make me eat eggplant. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Dawns in the dormitory had a suspicious resemblance to happiness. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The rain would not have bothered Fernanda, after all, her whole life had been spent as if it were raining. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
I tell myself now, that ever since I was little my sense of social decency has been more developed than my sense of death. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
It was as if God had decided to put to the test every capacity for surprise and was keeping the inhabitants of Macondo in a permanent alteration between excitement and disappointment, doubt and revelation, to such an extreme that no one knew for certain where the limits of reality lay. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Disbelief is more resistant than faith because it is sustained by the senses. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Nevertheless, in the impenetrable solitude of decrepitude she had such a clairvoyance as she examined the most insignificant happenings in the family that for the first time she saw clearly the truths that her busy life in former times had prevented her from seeing. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
If you lie down in a village square hoping to capture a sea gull, you could stay there your whole life without succeeding. But a hundred miles from shore it's different. Sea gulls have a highly developed instinct for self-preservation on land but at sea they're very cocky. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The adolescents of my generation, greedy for life, forgot in body and soul about their hopes for the future until reality taught them that tomorrow was not what they had dreamed, and they discovered nostalgia. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
without giving her money or love and only occasionally pleasure -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Then he made one last effort to search in his heart for the place where his affection had rotted away, and he could not find it. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
It's never too late for anything,' the colonel said. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
And it was always
without pretensions of loving or being loved although always in the hope of
finding something that resembled love but without the problems of love. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
It is incredible how one can be happy for so many years in the midst of so many squabbles, so many problems, damn it, and not really know if it was love or not. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
It is easier to avoid great matrimonial catastrophes than trivial everyday miseries. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
My most important problem was destroying the lines of demarcation that separate what seems real from what seems fantastic. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
My most important problem was to destroy the line of demarcation that separates what seems real from what seems fantastic. Because in the world that I was trying to evoke, that barrier didn't exist. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Then he knew that they had rounded the cape of good hope, and he took her large, soft hand again and covered it with forlorn little kisses, first the hard metacarpus, the long, discerning fingers, the diaphanous nails, and then the hieroglyphics of her destiny on her perspiring palm. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
I never used to write down all the ideas that occur to me while writing. I believed if I forgot them they were not important, and the ones that really mattered were those I remembered. Now I write them all down. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
She would not shed a tear, she would not waste the rest of her years simmering in the maggot broth of memory. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
For the first time in the interminable twenty-seven years that he had been waiting, Florentino Ariza could not endure the pangs of grief at the thought that this admirable man would have to die in order for him to be happy. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
She likes to try everything, out of curiosity, but she'll be sorry if she isn't guided by her heart. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
He connected the mechanism for the clock to a mechanical ballerina,and the toy danced uninterruptedly to the rhythm of her own music for three days.That discovery excited him so much more than any of his other hair-brained undertakings -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The weak would never enter the kingdom of love. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
People spend a lifetime thinking about how they would really like to live. I asked my friends and no one seems to know very clearly. To me it's very clear now. I wish my life could have been like the years when I was writing 'Love in the Time of Cholera.' -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
She had found peace in that house where memories materialized through the strength of implacable evocation and walked like human beings through the cloistered rooms -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
God was a full-fledged member of the Conservative Party. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The truth is I'm getting old, I said. We already are old, she said with a sigh. What happens is that you don't feel it on the inside, but from the outside everybody can see it. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
She began to study with a teacher of teachers, whom they brought for that purpose from the city of Mompox, and who died unexpectedly two weeks later, and she continued for several years with the best musician at the seminary, whose gravedigger's breath distorted her arpeggios. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
I think it is against nature for a man to get along better with his dog than he does with his wife, to teach it to eat and defecate on schedule, to answer his questions and share his sorrows. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
He could not understand why he had needed so many words to explain what he felt in war because one was enough: fear.
~Jose Aracadio Segundo Buendia
After the second banana slaughter -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Father Nicanor was against a religious ceremony and burial in consecrated ground.
Ursula stood up to him. In a way that neither you nor I can understand, that man was a saint, -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
I must warn you that the books I like are not necessarily the ones I think are the best. I like them for various reasons not always easy to explain. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The woman let out an expansive laugh that resounded through the house like a spray of broken glass. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
For at the height of pleasure he had experienced a revelation that he could not believe, that he even refused to admit, which was that his illusory love for Fermina Daza could be replaced by an earthly passion. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
She would defend herself, saying that love, no matter what else it might be, was a natural talent. She would say: You are either born knowing how, or you never know. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The truth is she was a fearless apprentice but lacked all talent for guided fornication. She never understood the charm of serenity in bed, never had a moment of invention, and her orgasms were inopportune and epidermic. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
There is no greater glory than to die for love. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
He repeated until his dying day that there was no one with more common sense, no stone cutter more obstinate, no manager more lucid or dangerous, than a poet. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The people one loves should take all their things with them when they die. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Ursula exclaimed "It is as if the world were repeating itself -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
When I wake up," he said, "remind me that I'm going to marry her. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
That is not true, but we lack the moral authority to endorse them (acts of euthanasia). What we do instead is what you have just seen. We commend the dying to Saint Hubert and tie them to a pillar in order to prolong and intensify their suffering. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Love on one side was defeating love on the other, because it was characteristic of men to deny hunger once their appetites were satisfied. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
They all saw him come out, and they all understood that now he knew they were going to kill him -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
They were two happy lovers among the crowd, and they came to suspect that love could be a feeling that was more relaxing and deep than the happiness, wild but momentary, of their secret nights. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
It's much more important to write than to be written about. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
To all, I would say how mistaken they are when they think that they stop falling in love when they grow old, without knowing that they grow old when they stop falling in love. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
It was the time when they loved each other best, without hurry or excess, when both were most conscious of and grateful for their incredible victories over adversity. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The difficulties continued but caused them less grief: Life had taken on the task of teaching them that the joy of love was not meant to lull you to sleep, but to keep you struggling together. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
They spend their lives fighting against priests and then give prayerbooks as gifts. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
I would not have traded the delights of my suffering for anything in the world. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Do whatever you want, but don't lose that child," she said. "There's no greater misfortune than dying alone. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Music is important for one's health. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
In a belated moment of inspiration, I decided to finish it with the announcement that with this column I was bringing to a happy conclusion a long and worthy life without the sad necessity of having to die. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Where one did not suffer with day to day problems because they were solved before hand in ones imagination. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
It always amuses me that the biggest praise for my work comes for the imagination, while the truth is that there's not a single line in all my work that does not have a basis in reality. The problem is that Caribbean reality resembles the wildest imagination. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Death has no sense of the ridiculous, -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
You have to have spent the night at sea, sitting in a life raft and looking at your watch, to know that the night is immeasurably longer than the day. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Santiago Nasar had often told me that the smell of closed-in flowers had an immediate relation to death for him. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The truth was that I could not manage my soul, and I was becoming aware of old age because of my weakness in the face of love. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
He was carrying a suitcase with clothing in order to stay and another just like it with almost two thousand letters that she had written him. They were arranged by date in bundles ties with colored ribbons, and they were all unopened. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
It was inevitable: the scent of bitter almonds always reminded him of the fate of unrequited love. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
With a languid hand he brushed away the cobwebs of his siesta ... -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
There is great power in the irresistible force of love. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Whatever happened to one love affected all the other loves through out the world. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
I have no friends," he said. "And if I do have any left it won't be for long. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
It is easier to start a war than to end it. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Four geological eras had to pass so that human beings would be able to outsing the birds and die for love. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
If his life depended on it, he
had to find out later why that indomitable soldier, accustomed to fighting to the last drop
of blood, had left the final battle of his life unfinished. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
For a week I did not take off my mechanic's coverall day or night I did not bathe or shave or brush my teeth because love taught me too late that you groom yourself for someone you dress and perfume yourself for someone and I'd never had anyone to do that for. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
He really had been through death, but he had returned because he could not bear the solitude. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
He did not dare to console her, knowing that it would have been like consoling a tiger run thru by a spear. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
As I kissed her the heat of her body increased, and it exhaled a wild, untamed fragrance. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Let me be, he said. Despair is the health of the damned. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The worst way to miss someone is to have them sitting right next to you and know you can never have them. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The truth is that she spoke about her misfortune without any shame in order to cover up the other misfortune, the real one, that was burning in her insides. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
By virtue of marrying a man she does not love for money. That's the lowest kind of whore. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Just as real events are forgotten, some that never were can be in our memories as if they happened. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
With "The Thousand and One Nights", I learned and never forgot that we should read only those books that force us to reread them. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
She was lost in her longing to understand. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
I do not believe there is a method better than Montessori for making children sensitive to the beauties of the world and awakening their curiosity regarding the secrets of life. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
He would wake for no reason in the middle of the night, and the memory of the self-absorbed love was revealed to him for what it was: a pitfall of happiness that he despised and desired at the same time, but from which it was impossible to escape. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The startling thing about her simplifying instinct was that the more she did away with fashion in search for comfort and the more she passed over conventions as she obeyed spontaneity, the more disturbing her incredible beauty became and the more provocative she become to men. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
In the end all books are written for your friends. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
As I hear him, I understand that he's not more moronic because of the brandy than he is because of his cowardice. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
She was the only person in the house, of either sex, who did not seem to have a heart pierced by the sorrow of thwarted love. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The only regret I have in dying is if it is not for love. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
He thought the column was magnificent, everything it said about old age was the best he had ever read, and it made no sense to end it with a decision that seemed more like a civil death. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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
The only thing worse than bad health is a bad name. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Today, when I saw you, I realized that what is between us is nothing more than an illusion. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Always tell what you feel. Do what you think... -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Surrealism runs through the streets, -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Just because someone does not love you as you want, it does not mean that you do not love with all his being. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The year I turned ninety, I wanted to give myself the gift of a night of wild love with an adolescent virgin. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The truth is that I know very few novelists who have been satisfied with the adaptation of their books for the screen. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
We have still not had a death. A person does not belong to a place until there is someone dead under the ground." he said.
"If I have to die for the rest of you to stay here, I will die" replied Ursula with a soft firmness. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
It was then that she realized that the yellow butterflies preceded the appearances of Mauricio Babilonia. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Not only was he the tallest, strongest, most virile, and best built man they had ever seen, but even though they were looking at him there was no room for him in their imagination. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
It was a meditation on life, love, old age, death: ideas that had often fluttered around her head like nocturnal birds but dissolved into a trickle of feathers when she tried to catch hold of them. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
...but in any case, he could not understand how people arrived at the extreme of waging war over things that could not be touched by hand. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
I picked myself out for you," she said. "Not you. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
She reminded him that the weak will never enter the kingdom of love, which is a harsh and ungenerous kingdom,and that women give themselves only to men of resolute spirit, who provide them with the security they need in order to face life. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
He always considered death an unavoidable professional hazard. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Those who wanted to sleep, not from fatigue but because of the nostalgia of dreams ... -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
She wanted to be herself again, to recover all that she had been obliged to give up in half a century of servitude that had doubtless made her happy but which, once her husband was dead, did not leave her even the vestiges of her identity. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Escaped the torments of memory with the aromatic fumes of gold cyanide -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
An ash-gray dog with a white blaze on its forehead burst onto the rough terrain of the market on the first Sunday in December, knocked down tables of fried food, overturned Indians' stalls and lottery kiosks, and bit four people who happened to cross its path. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Hate and love are reciprocal passions. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Wisdom comes to us when it can no longer do any good. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Be calm. God awaits you at the door. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
What worried Dr. Urbino most about dying was the solitary life Fermina Daza would lead without him. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
That is how they were: they spent their lives proclaiming their proud origins, the historic merits of the city, the value of its relics, its heroism, its beauty, but they were blind to the decay of its years. Dr Juvenal Urbino, on the other hand, loved it enough to see it with the eyes of truth. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Dr Urbino did not agree: in his opinion a Liberal president was exactly the same as a Conservative president, but not as well dressed. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
I understood this man was a Saint," he said.
"Something even rarer," said Dr. Urbino, "An atheistic saint. But those are matters for God to decide. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
At some point, you no longer feel pain. Sensation disappears and reason is dulled, until you lose all grasp of time and place. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
But he only found her in the image that saturated his private and terrible solitude. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
He allowed himself to be swayed by his conviction that human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but that life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The experience taught him [Salvador Allende] too late that a system cannot be changed from the government but from the power. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
As far as I'm concerned, I've come to realize only just now that I'm fighting because of pride. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The audacious telegraph operator took the flower from his buttonhole and said to her: I give you my life in this rose. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
He soon acquired the forlorn look that one sees in vegetarians. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
I'll never fall in love again ... it's like having two souls at the same time. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
And the two of them loved each other for a long time in silence without making love again. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
It was the year they fell into devastating love. Neither one could do anything except think about the other, dream about the other, and wait for letters with the same impatience they felt when they answered them. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Maybe God wants you to meet many wrong people, before you meet the right one,so when it happens you'll be thankful ;) -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Children's lies are signs of great talent. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
In a solemn way, as if he had just thought of it, he said: The world is moving ahead. Yes, I said, it's moving ahead, but it's revolving around the sun. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Things have a life of their own," the gypsy proclaimed with a harsh accent. "It's simply a matter of waking up their souls. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
One had to live a long time to know a man's true nature. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
It's enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Thanks to the unwanted privilege of being the oldest employee. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
So for now wave good-bye leave your hands held high -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The only thing he could do to stay alive was not to allow himself the anguish of that memory. He erased it from his mind, although from time to time in the years that were left to him he would feel it revive, with no warning and for no reason, like the sudden pang of an old scar. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Tricks you need to transform something which appears fantastic, unbelievable into something plausible, credible, those I learned from journalism. The key is to tell it straight. It is done by reporters and by country folk. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Nobody is worth crying for, and those that are worth it will not make you cry. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Thank God I found my Chinaman in time. It's like being married to your little finger, but he's all mine. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The fact is that being seductive is an addiction that can never be satisfied. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
They had to isolate her so that she would not drive the rest of the madwomen crazy. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
I detected the fragrance of Delgadina's soul as she slept on her side. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
This soup tastes like windows -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
He said that love was an emotion contra natura that condemned two strangers to a base and unhealthy dependence, and the more intense it was, the more ephemeral. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
I think just the opposite is true: love is an ideology for eternal militants, and the more misfortunes life tries to burden us with, the more essential love becomes. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Until her last moment on earth she was unaware that her irreparable fate as a disturbing woman was a daily disaster. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Blood circulated through her veins with the fluidity of a song that branched off into the most hidden areas of her body and returned to her heart, purified by love. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
I knew what she thought of them by the changes in her silence -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Florentino Ariza was left with the nagging suspicion that this was not her last word. He believed that when a woman says no, she is waiting to be urged before making her final decision, but with her he could not risk making the same mistake twice. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
On Juan Rulfo:
His published writings add up to no more than 300 pages, but they are just as many, and I believe just as enduring, as those that we know of Sophocles. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
What Uncle Leo XIII never suspected was that his nephew's courage did not come from the need to survive or from a brute indifference inherited from his father, but from a driving need for love, which no obstacle in this world or the next would ever break. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
But now it was he, not they, who crossed the street, so they would not see the tears he could no longer hold back, not his midnight tears, as he thought, but other tears: the ones he had been swallowing for fifty-one years, nine months and four days. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
I have learned that a man has the right and obligation to look down at another man, only when that man needs help to get up from the ground. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
It is life, more than death, that has no limits. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
It was a love of perpetual flight. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
We'll grow old waiting. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
He was in his coffin, ready to be buried, and yet he knew that he wasn't dead. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The only Virgos left in the world are people like you who were born in August. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Look at the mess we've got ourselves into,' Colonel Aureliano Buendia said at that time, 'just because we invited a gringo to eat some bananas. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The anxiety of falling in love could not find repose except in bed. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
A man should have two wives: one to love and one to sew on his buttons. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
They entrenched themselves in their preferences, their beliefs, their prejudices, and closed ranks against everything that was different -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Today, retired but not defeated, I enjoy the sacred privilege of writing at home, with the phone off the hook so that no one can disturb me, and without a censor looking over my shoulder to see what I am writing. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The first of the
line is tied to a tree and the last is being eaten by the ants . -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
In my opinion,' he said, 'the nineteenth century is passing for everyone except us. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
He had had to start thirty-two wars and had had to violate all of his pacts with death and wallow like a hog in the dung heap of glory in order to discover the privileges of simplicity almost forty years late. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
They pawned, between sobs, the last glittering ornaments of their last paradise. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
For those who may be hurting over lost love:
Don't cry because it is over ... smile because it happened. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The only regret I will have in dying is if it is not for love. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Life is not what one lived, but what One remembers and how One remembers it in order to recount it -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
He was a perfect husband: he never picked up anything from the floor, or turned out a light, or closed a door. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Si vas a volverte loco, vuelve te solo -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
That the past is one lie, and the memory has no returning, becouse every old spring is beyond retrieve, and even the craziest and most persistent love is just a temporary truth ... -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
It took me many years not to make arrogant distinctions between good and bad. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
She let him finish, scratching his head with the tips of her fingers, and without his having revealed that he was weeping from love, she recognized immediately the oldest sobs in the history of man. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Suddenly she sighed: "It is incredible how one can be happy for so many years in the midst of so many squabbles, so many problems, damn it, and not really know if it was love or not." By the time she finished unburdening herself, someone had turned off the moon. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
If men gave birth, they'd be less inconsiderate. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Life is the best thing that's ever been invented. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
There had never been a death so foretold. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Nothing made him desist except his own lamentable state of demoralization. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The war is in the mountains," he said. "For as long as I can remember, they have killed us in the cities with decrees, not with bullets. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The truth is that the first changes are so slow they pass almost unnoticed, and you go on seeing yourself as you always were, from the inside, but others observe you from the outside. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
A lie is more comfortable than doubt, more useful than love, more lasting than truth. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Horses frighten me as much as chickens do,' he said.
'That is too bad, because lack of communication with horses has impeded human progress,' said Abrenuncio. 'If we ever broke down the barriers, we could produce the centaur. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
That dawn he officiated at the daily mass of his ablutions with more frenetic severity than usual, trying to purge his body and spirit of twenty years of fruitless wars and the disillusionments of power. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Age isn't how old you are but how old you feel. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Nothing was eaten in the house that was not seasoned in the broth of longing. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Fernanda was scandalized that she did not understand the relationship of Catholicism with life but only its relationship with death, as if it were not a religion but a compendium of funeral conventions. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
A century ago, life screwed that poor man and me because we were too young, and now they want to do the same thing because we are too old. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
This was when I heard that the first symptom of old age is when you begin to resemble your father. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
No, not rich. I am a poor man with money, which is not the same thing. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
It is impossible to explain. But what I like most is to eat. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Children inherit their parents' madness. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Perhaps this is what the stories meant when they called somebody heartsick. Your heart and your stomach and your whole insides felt empty and hollow and aching. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The only convincing document he could write was a love letter. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
It was farcical. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
and they treated each other with the familiarity of a husband and wife who had hidden so many things in this life that there was almost nothing left for them to say to each other. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
That would be fine," she said "If we're alone, we'll leave the lamp lighted so that we can see each other, and I can holler as much as I want without anybody's having to butt in, and you can whisper in my ear any crap you can think of. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
She made a visual inventory of the disaster and confirmed that the girl was curled up like a snail, her head hidden between her arms: terrified but intact. "My God!" Rosa Cabarcas exclaimed. "What I wouldn't have given for a love like this! -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
I always had understood that dying of love was mere poetic license. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The rolls of music that she herself had thrown into the trash with the pretext that they had rotted from dampness kept spinning and playing in her memory. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The hunt for love is haughty falconry. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The symptoms of love are the same as those of cholera. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
That's maybe the reason he does so many things so that he will not have to think . -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Science has eliminated distance. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Most fatal diseases had their own specific odor, but ... none was as specific as old age. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Life will be too short for people to tell about it. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
He thought about his people without sentimentalily, with a strick closing of his accounts with life, beginning to understand how much he really loved the people he hated the most. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
It is not that the girl is unfit for everything, it is that she is not of this world. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
She lay on her back in bed for a long time thinking and when she returned to school an hour early she was beyond all desire to cry and she had sharpened her sense of smell along with her claws so that she could track down the miserable whore who had ruined her life. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
He who awaits much can expect little. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Jose Arcadio Buendia took his wife's words literally. He looked out the window and saw the barefoot children in the sunny garden and he had the impression that only at that instant had they begun to exist, conceived by Ursula's spell. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
They're perfect," she was frequently heard to say. "Any man will be happy with them because they've been raised to suffer. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
What is essential, therefore, is not that you no longer believe, but that God continues to believe in you. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
He was not to do anything in bad taste, the woman of the inn warned old Eguchi. He was not to put his finger into the mouth of the sleeping girl, or try anything else of that sort. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Nothing one does in bed is immoral if it helps perpetuate love -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
She answered him sincerely that she would never marry a man who was so simple that he had wasted almost an hour and even went without lunch just to see a woman taking a bath. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
At dawn, after a summary court martial, Arcadio was shot against the wall of the cemetery. In the last two hours of his life he did not manage to understand why the fear that had tormented him since childhood had disappeared. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
That was the way he always was, alien to the existence of his sons, partly because he considered childhood as a period of mental insufficiency, and partly because he was always too absorbed in his fantastic speculations. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
They scrutinized the universe on the dial of the small radio through the interference of jeers from fugitive planets -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Remember that everything that is good, whatever it's origin, comes from the holy spirit. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
One never quite stops believing,' said the Marquis. 'Some doubt remains forever.' Abrenuncio understood. He had always thought that ceasing to believe caused a permanent scar in the place where one's faith had been, making it impossible to forget. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
I don't have a method. All I do is read a lot, think a lot, and rewrite constantly. It's not a scientific thing. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Old age began with one's 1st fall and the death came with the 2nd . -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
He considered respect for one's given word as a wealth that should not be squandered. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
I never had intimate friends, and the few who came close are in New York. By which I mean they're dead, because that's where I suppose condemned souls go in order not to endure the truth of their past lives. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
You have a heart of stone," she told him.
"It's not a question of a heart," he said. "The room's getting full of moths. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The woman stayed on her stool, silent, concentrating, watching the man's movements with an air of declining sadness. Watching him as a lamp about to go out might have looked at a man. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
One of the saddest things about dying is that it's the only event in my life I won't be able to write about. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Her movements were so stealthy that she seemed to be an invisible creature. Frightened by her strange nature, her mother had hung a cowbell around the girl's wrist so she would not lose track of her in the shadows of the house. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Most of the times it's healthier to start over in a different way, or throw it away. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Men demand much more than you think," she would tell her enigmatically. "There's a lot of cooking, a lot of sweeping, a lot of suffering over little things beyond what you think. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
As a writer I'm merely a journalist who has learned to write better than others. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Necessity has the face of a dog. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
She managed to thank God for having been born before she lost herself in the inconceivable pleasure of that unbearable pain, splashing in the steaming marsh of the hammock which absorbed the explosion of blood like a blotter -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
From that time on the parish priest began to show signs of senility that would lead him to say years later that the devil had probably won his rebellion against God, and that he was the one who sat on the heavenly throne, without revealing his true identity in order to trap the unwary. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
For that was what he needed: to let his soul escape through his mouth. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
No matter what you do this year or in the next hundred, you will be dead forever. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
There is no law, human or divine, that this man has not ignored. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
His examination revealed that he had no fever, no pain anywhere, and that his only concrete feeling was an urgent desire to die. All that was needed was shrewd questioning ... to conclude once again that the symptoms of love were the same as those of cholera. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Still, they continued to be intermittent lovers for almost 30 years, thanks to their musketeers' motto : unfaithful but not disloyal. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
It was simply a way of giving herself some relief, because actually they were joined till death by a bond that was more solid than love: a common prick of conscience. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Ah, me, if this is love, then how it torments. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
But that afternoon he asked himself, with his infinite capacity for illusion, if such pitiless indifference might not be a subterfuge for hiding the torments of love. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Because seas are like cats, he said, they always come home. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
2Ever since they were still linked by a serious affection, but without the disorder of love, -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
She would go to sleep only once and that would be to die. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The spirit of her invincible heart guided her through the shadows. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
But the adornments and cosmetics could not hide her character: the haughty nose, heavy eyebrows, intense lips. I thought: A tender young fighting bull. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The girl raised her eyes to see who was passing by the window, and that casual glance was the beginning of a cataclysm of love that still had not ended half a century later. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
E read whatever came his way, as if it had been ordained by fate,.. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
I heard a shout on the horizon, the sobs of someone who perhaps had died a century earlier in the room. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
It was October. A difficult morning to get through, even for a man like himself, who had survived so many mornings like this one. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Hildebranda had a universal conception of love, and she believed that whatever happened to one love affected all other loves throughout the world. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
But the lucidity of her old age allowed her to see, and she said so many times, that the cries of children in their mothers' wombs are not announcements of ventriloquism or a faculty for prophecy but an unmistakable sign of an incapacity for love. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
What did you expect?" he murmured. "Time passes. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The oppressiveness of twilight filled the world. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
I have never done anything except write, but I don't possess the vocation or talents of a narrator, have no knowledge at all of the laws of dramatic composition, and if I have embarked upon this enterprise it is because I trust in the light shed by how much I have read in my life. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Thus they went on living in a reality that was slipping away, momentarily captured by words, but which would escape irremediably when they forgot the values of the written letters. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
In some way impossible to ascertain, after so many years of absense, Jose Arcadio was still an autumnal child, terribly sad and solitary. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Life had already given him sufficient reasons for knowing that no defeat was the final one. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
How awful," he said, "the way time passes! -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Curiosity is one of the many masks of love. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
And yet we didn't believe it now that it was, and not because we really didn't believe it but because we no longer wanted it to be true, we had ended up not understanding what would become of us without him, what would become of our lives after him, -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
When I sit down to write, which is the essential moment in my life, I am completely alone. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
He was weary of the uncertainty of the vicious circle of that eternal war that always found him in the same place, but always older, wearier, even more in the position of not knowing why, or how, or even when. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
It is life, more than death, which has no limits -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
I don't believe in God, but I'm afraid of Him. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
I'm old, sick, tired, disillusioned, harassed, slandered, and unappreciated. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The usual for me. The usual was a strong infusion of different kinds of Oriental teas, which raised her spirits after her siesta. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
We men are the miserable slaves of prejudice, -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Think of love as a state of grace not as a means to anything ... but an end in itself. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
One could be happy not only without love, but despite it. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The only thing that comes for sure is death, colonel -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
This was his world, he said to himself, the sad, oppressive world that God had provided for him, and he was responsible to it. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Courage did not come from the need to survive, or from a brute indifference inherited from someone else, but from a driving need for love which no obstacle in this world or the next world will break. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The world is divided into those who screw and those who do not. He distrusted those who did not - when they strayed from the straight and narrow it was something so unusual for them that they bragged about love as if they had just invented it. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
When you have a healthy appetite there is no such thing as bad bread. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
With her waiting she had lost the strength of her thighs, the firmness of her breasts, her habit of tenderness, but she kept the madness of her heart intact. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
My sister the nun, who wasn't going to wait for the bishop because she had an eighty-proof hangover, -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
You're a great man, General, greater than anyone," she told him. "But love is still too big for you. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
It occurred to me that among the charms of old age are the provocations our young female friends permit themselves because they think we are out of commission. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Even when the winds of misfortune blow, amazing things can still happen. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Her own experience was beginning to tell her that an alert old age can be more keen than the cards. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The problem in public life is learning to overcome terror; the problem in married life is learning to overcome boredom. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
But underneath it all she could not conceive that the boy the gypsies took away was the same lout who would eat half a suckling pig for lunch and whose flatulence withered flowers. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
If you don't fear God, fear him through the metals. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Then they both kept on knifing him against the door with alternate and easy stabs, floating in the dazzling backwater they had found on the other side of fear. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The feverish excitement of twenty had been something very noble, very beautiful, but it had not been love. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
She suspected too late that behind his professional authority and worldly charm, the man she had married was a hopeless weakling: a poor devil made bold by the social weight of his family names. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
I came back from the bridge bathed in tears. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
A ... look that seemed to know what there was on the other side of things. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Once again she shuddered with the evidence that time was not passing, as she had just admitted, but that it was turning in a circle. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Lost in the solitude of his immense power, he began to lose direction. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The majority understood that his passivity was not that of a hero taking his ease but that of a cataclysm in repose. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The more transparent the writing, the more visible the poetry. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
One nail draws another. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
I am not talking to you," said Abrenuncio. "I think in Low Latin. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
From being used so much, kneaded with sweat and sighs, the air in the room had begun to turn to mud. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The people of the United States are one of the people I most admire in the world. The only thing I don't understand is why a country that manages to do so well cannot do better in choosing its president. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
That casual glance was the beginning of a cataclysm of love that had still not ended half a century later. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Nothing in this world was more difficult than love. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Humanity, like armies in the field, advances at the speed of the slowest. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The only thing that didn't occur to her was to give up. Nevertheless, he seemed insensible to her
delirium; it was like writing to nobody. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
That was the state of the world when I began to be aware of my family environment, and I cannot evoke it in any other way: sorrows, griefs, uncertainties in the solitude of an immense house. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The brothers were brought up to be men. The girls had been reared to get married. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
And both of them remained floating in an empty universe where the only everyday & eternal reality was love ... -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
But in the days that followed I realized he was only what he seemed: a giant baby with a heart too big for his body. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
I returned home tormented by the little demon who whispers into our ear the devastating replies we didn't give at the right time, -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Little by little he idolized her, endowing her with improbable virtues and imaginary sentiments, and after two weeks he thought of nothing else but her. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
It was a lone voice in the middle of the ocean, but it was heard at great depth and great distance. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Over the years they both reached the same wise conclusion by different paths: it was not possible to live together in any other way, or love in any other way, and nothing in this world was more difficult than love. In -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Fernanda, on the other hand, looked for it in vain along the paths of her everyday itinerary without knowing that the search for lost things is hindered by routine habits and that is why it is so difficult to find them. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Life in the world ... was nothing more than a system of atavistic contracts, banal ceremonies, preordained words, with which people entertained each other in society in order not to commit murder. The dominant sign in that paradise of provincial frivolity was fear of the unknown. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
He spent six hours examining things, trying to find a difference from their appearance on the previous day in the hope of discovering in them some change that would reveal the passage of time. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
When I stand and contemplate my fate and see the path along which you have led me, I reach my end, for artless I surrendered to one who is my undoing and my end. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Freedom is often the first casualty of war. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Sometimes we attribute certain things we do not understand to the demon, not thinking they may be things of God that we do not understand. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Surrealism comes from the reality of Latin America. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
He governed as if he felt predestined to never die -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
She said: It is as if he were not a person but only a shadow. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Fermina, he said, I have waited for this opportunity for more than half a century, to repeat to you once again my vow of eternal fidelity and everlasting love. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Love becomes greater and nobler in calamity. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Take care,' said Delaura. 'Sometimes we attribute certain things we do not understand to the demon, not thinking they may be things of God that we do not understand.'
'Saint Thomas said it, and I will be guided by him,' said the Abbess: 'One must not believe demons even when they speak the truth. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
More than mother and son, they were accomplices in solitude. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
And again, as always, after so many years we were still in the same place we always were. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
To hell with a fan when the wind is blowing. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
A famous writer who wants to continue writing has to be constantly defending himself against fame. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
But he could not renounce his infinite capacity for illusion at the very moment he needed it most ... he saw fireflies where there were none. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
For her sake Florentino Ariza had violated his sacred principle of never paying, and she had violated hers of never doing it for free of charge, even with her husband. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
it was useless to divide it into months and years, and the days into hours, when one could do nothing, but contemplate the rain -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
[...] because in that faggot town only a man like him could prevent the tragedy. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Take advantage of it now, while you are young, and suffer all you can, because these things don't last your whole life. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Avalanche of foreigners. The house was suddenly filled with -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
She knew that he loved her above all else, more than anything in the world, but only for his own sake. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
His blue eyes, lively and close-set, revealed the gentleness of a man who had read all of the books. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The city drowned in memories. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
I would give wings to children, but I would leave it to them to learn how to fly by themselves. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
She had the revelation one Sunday that while the other instruments played for everyone the violen played for her alone . -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
They went ahead like sleepwalkers through a universe of grief -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Injections are the best thing ever invented for feeding doctors. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Later, given political changes and the deterioration of the world, nobody in the government thought about either arts or letters. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
He shook my hand and said goodbye with a sentence that might have been either good advice or a threat: Take good care of yourself. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
When he went through the kitchen he kissed Rebeca on the forehead.
"Get those bad thoughts out of your head," he told her. "You're going to be happy. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
One ages more and with more intensity in pictures than in reality. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
I want the same one, the way she always is, without failures, without fights, without bad memories. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
She belived that whatever happened to one love affected other loves throught the world . -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
That may be the reason he does so many things," she said, "so that he will not have to think. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Love if it existed
was something separate: another life. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Only god knows how much I loved you. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
They did not speak of it the first night, when they spoke of everything until dawn, nor would they ever speak of it. But in the long run, neither of them had made a mistake. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
We are the orphans of our son. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Fame is very agreeable, but the bad thing is that it goes on 24 hours a day. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Florentino Ariza wrote everything with so much passion that even official documents seem to be about love. His bills of lading were rhymed no matter how he tried to avoid it, and routine business letters had a lyrical spirit that diminished their authority. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
When at last he surrendered, Florentino Ariza hung the mirror in house, not for the exquisite frame but because of the place inside that for two hours had been occupied by her beloved reflection -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
And how long do you think we can keep up this goddamn coming and going?' he asked.
Florentino Ariza had kept his answer ready for fifty-three years, seven months, and eleven days and nights.
'Forever,' he said. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
we've had more enemies than we had soldiers, -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The move to Arcata was seen by my grandparents as a journey into forgetting. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Other doctors lose as many patients as I do, he would say. But with me they die happier. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
He stared at her openly, at her intense mourning, at the dignity of her grief, -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
There are some corrupt Christians who do their business with female donkeys. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Don't let yourself die without knowing the wonder of fucking with love. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
My heart in an uproar. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
She was a ghost in a strange house that overnight had become immense and solitary and through which she wandered without purpose, asking herself in anguish which one of them was deader: the man who had died or the woman he had left behind. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The only difference today between Liberals and Conservatives is that the Liberals go to mass at five o'clock and the Conservatives at eight. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
He finished shaving by touch, still walking around the room, for he tried to see himself in the mirror as little as possible so he would not have to look into his own eyes. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
You can't eat hope,' the woman said.
You can't eat it, but it sustains you,' the colonel replied. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
It was the last that remained of a past whose annihilation had not taken place because it was still in a process of annihilation, consuming itself from within, ending at every moment but never ending its ending. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
She would say, Someone should invent something to do with things you cannot use anymore but that you still cannot throw out. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
It is better to arrive in time than to be invited. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
You can't come in, colonel," she told him. "You may be in command of your war, but I'm in command of my house. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Most critics don't realize that a novel like One Hundred Years of Solitude is a bit of a joke, full of signals to close friends; and so, with some pre-ordained right to pontificate they take on the responsibility of decoding the book and risk making terrible fools of themselves. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Everything that goes into my mouth seems to make me fat, everything that comes out of my mouth embarrasses me. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
He was begining to defer his problems in the hope that death would resolve them . -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Throughout the house one could detect the good sense and care of a woman whose feet were planted firmly on the ground. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The captain gave the order to fire. Arcadio barely had time to put out his chest and raise his head, not understanding where the hot liquid that burned his thighs was pouring from. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
And realized that death was not only a permanent probability, as he had always believed, but an immediate reality. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The memory of the past did not redeem the future, as he insisted on believing. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
He thought that the world would make more rapid progress without the burden of old people. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The only everyday and eternal reality was love. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
He was invaded by an unreasoning calm, which he interpreted as an omen that nothing new was going to happen, that everything he had done in his life had been in vain, that he could not go on: it was the end. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Justice limps along, but gets there all the same. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The human body is not made to endure all the years that one may live -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
At that moment Homero saw him with his heart and laid down his weapons -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
chicken on the grill -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
We'll turn to ashes in this house without men, but. we won't give this miserable town the pleasure of seeing us weep -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
It was then, for the first time, that she understood above all her virtues what was in command was the vanity of a metaphysical woman. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Shooting with his camera the animals tha they did not allow him to kill with his rifle . -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Because races condemned to one hundred years of solitude did not have a second opportunity on earth -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The pursuit of love is like falconry.- chronicle of death foretold -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
She had helped him to endure the suffering as lovingly as she had helped him to discover happiness. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
No matter what, nobody can take away the dances you've already had. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Death really did not matter to him but life did, and therefore the sensation he felt when they gave their decision was not a feeling of fear but of nostalgia. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
He pleaded so much that he lost his voice. His bones began to fill with words. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
I live in fear of being alive. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
But when she saw her eating with her hands, incapable of giving an answer that was not a miracle of simple-mindedness, the only thing that she lamented was the fact that the idiots in the family lived so long. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Old people, with other old people, are not so old. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
One never quite stops believing, some doubt remains forever. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
If God hadn't rested on Sunday, He would have had time to finish the world. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
When one reaches absolute power, one loses total contact with reality. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The worst of a bad situation is that it makes us tell lies. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Unknown guests, with invincible and worldly carousers, and it became necessary -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
One can be in love with several people at the same time, feel the sorrow with each, and not betray any of them. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Let me stay here," he said. "There was soap. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
She would get up at eleven o'clock, completely nude, in the bathroom, killing scorpions as she came out of her dense and prolonged sleep. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
But if they had learned anything together, it was that wisdom comes to us when it can no longer do any good. For -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Her heart of compressed ash, which had resisted the most telling blows of daily reality without strain, fell apart with the first waves of nostalgia. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Here the only one who has the right to prohibit anything is the government, we live in a democracy. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
every night when the hours grew too long -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
There [is] no innocence more dangerous than the innocence of age. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The surprise lay in the third niche of the high altar, on the side where the Gospels were kept. The stone shattered at the first blow of the pickax, and a stream of living hair the intense color of copper spilled out of the crypt. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
government guarantees on its word of honor -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Opened the door a crack wide enough for the entire world to pass through . -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
fear of death is the amber of happiness -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
It had never occurred to him until then to think that literature was the best plaything that had ever been invented to make fun of people ... -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
She felt the abyss of disenchantment. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
You can't eat it, but it sustains you, -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
in this world of everything -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
I told your daughter that she is like a rose." " True enough," said Lorenzo Daza "but one with too many thorns. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
What surprised him most, however, was the logic of his wings. They seemed so natural on that completely human organism that he couldn't understand why other men didn't have them too. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The interpretation of our reality through patterns not our own, serves only to make us ever more unknown, ever less free, ever more solitary. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
That woman of unbreakable nerves who at no moment in her life had been heard to sing. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
She was certain that the Vicario brothers were not as eager to carry out the sentence as to find someone who would do them the favor of stopping them. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Crazy people are not crazy if one accepts their reasoning. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Nobody teaches life anything. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
There he was, just as she saw him: the shadow of someone she had never met. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
If you're going to be a writer you have to be one of the great ones ... After all, there are better ways to starve to death. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
He argued that if wings were not the essential element in determining the different between a hawk and an airplane, they were even less so in the recognition of angels. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The world must be all fucked up," he said then, "when men travel first class and literature goes as freight. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Where art thou that thou art not here. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
A man only has the right to look down at another when he helps him to lift himself up. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
No medicine cures what happiness cannot. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
From the moment I wrote 'Leaf Storm' I realized I wanted to be a writer and that nobody could stop me and that the only thing left for me to do was to try to be the best writer in the world. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry. With both you are working with reality, a material just as hard as wood. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The day when shit becomes worth something, the poor will be born without asses. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
She realized very soon that the desire to forget him was the strongest inducement for remembering him. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
With that discouraging explanation many felt that they had been the victims of some new and showy gypsy business and they decided not to return to the movies, considering that they already had too many troubles of their own to weep over the acted-out misfortunes of imaginary beings. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
How strange women are. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
I soaked the conversations up like a sponge, pulled them apart, rearranged them to make their origins disappear, and when I told them to the same people who had told the stories earlier, they were bewildered by the coincidence between what I said and what they were thinking. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Nothing resembles a person as much as the way he dies. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
jealousy knows more than truth does. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
When you're ugly and poor, you can only want more. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
One minute of reconciliation is worth more than a whole life of friendship! -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
It was an absurd journey. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Colonel Aureliano Buendia could understand only that the secret of good old age is simply an honorable pact with solitude- 205 -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Then the writing became so fluid that I sometimes felt as if I were writing for the sheer pleasure of telling a story, which may be the human condition that most resembles levitation. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
It can'r rain for ever -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
With every six heads sixty enemies are produced and for every sixty six hundred are produced and then six thousand and then six million, the whole country, God damn it, we'll never end, -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Give me a prejudice and I will move the world. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
While a person does not give up on sex, sex does not give up on the person. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Cease, cows, life is short. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
I've remained a virgin for you. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Sex is the consolation you have when you can't have love -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
all that was needed was a feeling of primitive and as simple as that of love -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
You have to know languages when you go to sell something," she said with mocking laughter. "But when you go to buy, everyone does what he must to understand you. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
In all the houses keys to memorizing objects and feelings had been written. But the system demanded so much vigilance and moral strength that many succumbed to the spell of an imaginary reality, one invented by themselves, which was less practical for them but more comforting. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
His bones began to fill with sounds -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Not with any hope of defeating solitude in that way, but, quite the contrary, in order to nurture it -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Life was imposed on her from outside -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Jose Palacios, his oldest servant, found him floating naked with his eyes open in the purifying waters of his bath and thought he had drowned. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
A person doesn't die when he should but when he can. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Morality, too, is a question of time. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
We have Independence, General, so now tell us what to do with it -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The world was reduced to the surface of her skin and her inner self was safe from all bitterness. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
it was characteristic of men to deny hunger once their appetite were satisfied -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
From then on I began to measure my life not by years but by decades. -- Gabriel Garcia Marquez