“Fernanda was scandalized that she did not understand the relationship of Catholicism with life but only its relationship with death, as if… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
“He was begining to defer his problems in the hope that death would resolve them .” — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
“The ferocity of Santiago Nasar's fate, which had collected twenty years of happiness from him not only with his death but also… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
He really had been through death, but he had returned because he could not bear the solitude. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
If you're going to be a writer you have to be one of the great ones... After all, there are better ways… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
“He was shaken by the overwhelming revelation that the headlong race between his misfortunes ad his dreams was at that moment reaching… — 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
“He thought the column was magnificent, everything it said about old age was the best he had ever read, and it made… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
“Old age began with one's 1st fall and the death came with the 2nd .” — 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 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