“[T]hink of love as a state of grace: not the means to anything but the alpha and omega, an end in itself.” — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
A lie is more comfortable than doubt, more useful than love, more lasting than truth. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
It's enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
“The eternal loves of the high seas ended when the port came in sight.” — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
“Think of love as a state of grace not as a means to anything... but an end in itself.” — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
One can be in love with several people at the same time, feel the sorrow with each, and not betray any of… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
“El sexo es el consuelo que le queda a uno cuando ya no le alcanza el amor.” — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
and the two of them loved each other for a long time in silence without making love again. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
He said that love was an emotion contra natura that condemned two strangers to a base and unhealthy dependence, and the more… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
“One night she came back from her daily walk stunned by the revelation that one could be happy not only without love,… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
She let him finish, scratching his head with the tips of her fingers, and without his having revealed that he was weeping… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
This was when she asked him whether it was true that love conquered all, as the songs said. 'It is true', he… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
Over the years they both reached the same wise conclusion by different paths: it was not possible to live together in any… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
Then he made one last effort to search in his heart for the place where his affection had rotted away, and he… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
There is bound to be someone driven mad by love who will give you the chance to study the effects of gold… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
“they no longer felt like newlyweds, and even less like belated lovers. It was as if they had leapt over the arduous… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
“The Widow Nazaret never missed her occasional appointments with Florentino Ariza, not even during her busiest times, and it was always without… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
“...the only souvenir she kept of Aureliano Segundo was a pair of patent leather boots, which, according to what he himself had… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
“She reminded him that the weak will never enter the kingdom of love, which is a harsh and ungenerous kingdom,and that women… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
“We men are the slaves of prejudice,' he had once said to her. 'But when a woman decides to sleep with a… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
Aureliano not only understood by then, he also lived his brother’s experiences as something of his own, for on one occasion when… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
“And only after he said it did he realize that among the countless suicides he could remember, this was the first with… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
“She made a visual inventory of the disaster and confirmed that the girl was curled up like a snail, her head hidden… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
The house became full of love. Aureliano expressed it in poetry that had no beginning and no end. He would write it… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
“Tired of his lack of understanding, she asked him for an unusual birthday gift: that for one day he would take care… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
“He dug so deeply into her sentiments that in search of interest he found love, because by trying to make her love… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
“In Paris, strolling arm in arm with a casual sweetheart through a late autumn, it seemed impossible to imagine a purer happiness… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
“I always had understood that dying of love was mere poetic license. That afternoon, back home again without the cat and without… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
“The truth is that Dr. Juvenal Urbino's suit had never been undertaken in the name of love, and it was curious, to… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
“She took refuge in her newborn son. she had felt him leave her body with a sensation of relief at freeing herself… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
“The Captain looked at Fermina Daza and saw on her eyelashes the first glimmer of wintry frost. Then he looked at Florentino Ariza, his… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share
“Courage did not come from the need to survive, or from a brute indifference inherited from someone else, but from a driving need for… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share
“He aprendido que un hombre sólo tiene derecho a mirar a otro hacia abajo cuando ha de ayudarle a levantarse.” — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share
From the moment I wrote 'Leaf Storm' I realized I wanted to be a writer and that nobody could stop me and that the… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share
He sank into the rocking chair, the same one in which Rebecca had sat during the early days of the house to give embroidery… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share
“They were people whose lives were slow, who did not see themselves growing old, or falling sick, or dying, but who disappeared little by… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share
“I didn't do any of what they told me,' she said, 'because the more I thought about it, the more I realized that it… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share
He thought about his people without sentimentalily, with a strick closing of his accounts with life, beginning to understand how much he really loved… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share
Why were you so old when we met? I answered with the truth: Age isn't how old you are but how old you feel. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share
Between the covers of the books that no one had ever read again, in the old parchments damaged by dampness, a livid flower had… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share
I was asked the other day if I would be interested in the Nobel Prize, but I think that for me it would be… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share
“Fear had absorbed her completely and remained there, fixed, tenacious, almost corporeal, as if it were some invisible person who had made up his… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share
“Today I know I was right. The adolescents of my generation, greedy for life, forgot in body and soul about their hopes for the… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share
“...It was then, for the first time, that she understood above all her virtues what was in command was the vanity of a metaphysical… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share