He was healthier than the rest of us, but when you listened with the stethoscope you could hear the tears bubbling inside… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
She likes to try everything, out of curiosity, but she'll be sorry if she isn't guided by her heart. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
Once again she shuddered with the evidence that time was not passing, as she had just admitted, but that it was turning… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez 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
The world was reduced to the surface of her skin and her inner self was safe from all bitterness. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
She knew that he loved her above all else, more than anything in the world, but only for his own sake. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
“Little by little he idolized her, endowing her with improbable virtues and imaginary sentiments, and after two weeks he thought of nothing… — 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
“Arcadio had seen her many times working in her parents' small food store but he had never taken a good look at… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
Don't open that door," she said. "The hallway is full of difficult dreams." And I asked her: "How do you know?" And… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
Her laugh was sad and taciturn, seemingly detached from any feeling of the moment, like something she kept in the cupboard and… — 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
A great commotion immobilized her in her center of gravity, planted her in her place, and her defensive will was demolished by… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
“Nevertheless, in the impenetrable solitude of decrepitude she had such a clairvoyance as she examined the most insignificant happenings in the family… — 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
“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
“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 Image
“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 Image
“...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 Image
