“They were people whose lives were slow, who did not see themselves growing old, or falling sick, or dying, but who disappeared… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
“We have still not had a death. A person does not belong to a place until there is someone dead under the… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
“Dr. Urbino caught the parrot around the neck with a triumphant sigh: ça y est. But he released him immediately because the… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
“an old man with no destiny with our never knowing who he was, or what he was like, or even if he… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
“At twelve o’clock, when Aureli-ano, José had bled to death and Carmelita Montiel found that the cards showing her future were blank,… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
“It was simply a way of giving herself some relief, because actually they were joined till death by a bond that was… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
“my sense of social decency has been more developed than my sense of death. For” — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
He repeated until his dying day that there was no one with more common sense, no stonecutter more obstinate, no manager more… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
“The only thing that [Amaranta] did not keep in mind in her fearsome plan was that in spite of her pleas to… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
“Along the rough cobbled streets that had served so well in surprise attacks and buccaneer landings, weeds hung from the balconies and… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
“No: that fear had been inside him for many years, it had lived with him, it had been another shadow cast over… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
“My God, if I had a heart, I would write my hate on ice, and wait for the sun to show.” — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“Colonel Aureliano Buendia smiled at her the same way as when he had first seen her with the bandage on that remote… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
“Don't worry," he would say, smiling. "Dying is much more difficult than one imagines.” — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
It was a meditation on life, love, old age, death: ideas that had often fluttered around her head like nocturnal birds but… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
and realized that death was not only a permanent probability, as he had always believed, but an immediate reality. — 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
He always considered death an unavoidable professional hazard. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
Death really did not matter to him but life did, and therefore the sensation he felt when they gave their decision was… — 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
The only regret I will have in dying is if it is not for love. — 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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
