“Opposite her, calming his peaceful hunger, was old Jacob, a man who had loved her so much and for so long that… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
“The driver warned me: Be careful, scholar, they kill in that house. I replied: If it's for love it doesn't matter.” — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
“The night was over, for he did not dare to play forbidden games with a woman who had proven too many times… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
“Hildebranda had a universal conception of love, and she believed that whatever happened to one love affected all other loves throughout the… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
[The captain] looked at Florentino Ariza, his invincible power, his intrepid love and was overwhelmed by the belated suspicion that it is… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
“I did not bathe or shave or brush my teeth, because love taught me too late that you groom yourself for someone,… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
“They were two happy lovers among the crowd, and they came to suspect that love could be a feeling that was more… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
“But the next morning, while night owls slept, I climbed trembling to her cubicle and woke her, weeping aloud with a crazed… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
“The world is divided into those who screw and those who do not. He distrusted those who did not—when they strayed from… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
For a week I did not take off my mechanic's coverall day or night I did not bathe or shave or brush… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
In the plenitude of their relationship, Florentina Ariza asked himself which of the two was love: the turbulent bed or the peaceful… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
“The only certainty was that they took everything with them: money, December breezes, the bread knife, thunder at 3 in the afternoon,… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
It had to teach her to think of love as a state of grace: not the means to anything but the alpha… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
“[O]ne can be in love with several people at the same time, feel the same sorrow with each, and not betray any… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
But that afternoon he asked himself, with his infinite capacity for illusion, if such pitiless indifference might not be a subterfuge for… — 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