“I love you not for whom you are, but who I am when i'm by your side” — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
“[A]nd both of them remained floating in an empty universe where the only everyday and eternal reality was love.” — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
For those who may be hurting over lost love: Don't cry because it is over... smile because it happened. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
When I wake up," he said, "remind me that I'm going to marry her. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
“That casual glance was the beginning of a cataclysm of love that had still not ended half a century later.” — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
“she was also not convinced that love was really what she most needed to live. In” — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
“The feverish excitement of twenty had been something very noble, very beautiful, but it had not been love.” — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
Nothing one does in bed is immoral if it helps to perpetuate love. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
“She was the only person in the house, of either sex, who did not seem to have a heart pierced by the… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
“A century ago, life screwed that poor man and me because we were too young, and now they want to do the… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
“All that was needed was a shrewd questioning, first of the patient and then of his mother, to conclude once again that… — Gabriel Garcia Márquez Copy Share Image
“Then he looked at Florentino Ariza, his invincible power, his intrepid love, and he was overwhelmed by the belated suspicion that it… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
“For at the height of pleasure he had experienced a revelation that he could not believe, that he even refused to admit,… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
“...in one hundred years we have lost the best human virtues of the nineteenth century: fervent idealism and the primacy of feeling:… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
“I'll never fall in love again," he once confessed to José Palacios, the only human being with whom he ever permitted himself… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
It was the year they fell into devastating love. Neither one could do anything except think about the other, dream about the… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
Gaston was not only a fierce lover, with endless wisdom and imagination, but he was also, perhaps, the first man in the… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
“he was the lover who never showed his face, the man most avid for love as well as most niggardly with it,… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
“The act was an exorcism of relief for Florentino Ariza, for when he put the violin back into its case and walked… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
In that Macondo forgotten even by the birds, where the dust and the heat had become so strong that it was difficult… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
With her Florentino Ariza learned what he had already experienced many times without realizing it: that one can be in love with… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
“He was aware he did not love her. He had married her because he liked her haughtiness, her seriousness, her strength, and… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
She knew that it would not be easy to submit to his miserliness, or the foolishness of his premature appearance of age,… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
“We men are the miserable slaves of prejudice. But when a woman decides to sleep with a man, there is no wall… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
I became aware that the invincible power that has moved the world is unrequited, not happy, love. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
Taught him the only thing he had to learn about love: that nobody teaches life anything. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
“Love was always love anytine anyplace but it was more solid the closer it came to death .” — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
Intrigued by that enigma, he dug so deeply into her sentiments that in search of interest he found love, because by trying… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“It is incredible how one can be happy for so many years in the midst of so many squabbles, so many problems,… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
“With her Florentino Ariza learned what he had already experienced many times without realizing it: that one can be in love with… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
“Even when I don't have to write, I arrange it every morning with the pointless rigor that has made me lose so… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
...The girl raised her eyes to see who was passing by the window, and that casual glance was the beginning of a… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
“The weak would never enter the kingdom of love, which is a harsh & ungenerous kingdom & that women gives themselves only… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
I think just the opposite is true: love is an ideology for eternal militants, and the more misfortunes life tries to burden… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
“they had lived together long enough to know that love was always love, anytime and anyplace, but it was more solid the… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
There was a house at the foot of the tower, close to the thunder of the waves breaking against the cliffs, where… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
She would defend herself, saying that love, no matter what else it might be, was a natural talent. She would say: You… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
“I would prove to the men how mistaken they are in thinking that they no longer fall in love when they grow… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
...they enjoyed the miracle of loving each other as much at the table as in bed, and they grew to be so… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez 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