Heart Quotes by Gabriel García Márquez

“My heart has more rooms than a whorehouse.”

— Gabriel García Márquez

She felt the abyss of disenchantment.

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“My heart in an uproar.”

— Gabriel García Márquez

She was lost in her longing to understand.

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

A true friend is the one who holds your hand and touches your heart

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

The spirit of her invincible heart guided her through the shadows.

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

but he only found her in the image that saturated his private and terrible solitude.

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“And so she thought about him as she never could have imagined thinking about anyone...”

— Gabriel García Márquez

“That may be the reason he does so many things," she said, "so that he will not have to think.”

— Gabriel García Márquez

“There he was, just as she saw him: the shadow of someone she had never met.”

— Gabriel García Márquez

“She had that rare virtue of never existing completely except for that opportune moment”

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“He never imagined how much she suffered... because he never imagined how much she loved him.”

— Gabriel García Márquez

“It was a terror of the strange, of what was mysterious and unknown in her new world. And to think that all…

— Gabriel García Márquez

“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

“And she did not have to see him to know that he was there, because the butterflies were always there.”

— Gabriel García Márquez

Her heart of compressed ash, which had resisted the most telling blows of daily reality without strain, fell apart with the first…

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Blood circulated through her veins with the fluidity of a song that branched off into the most hidden areas of her body…

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

She would not shed a tear, she would not waste the rest of her years simmering in the maggot broth of memory.

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Then he made one last effort to search in his heart for the place where his affection had rotted away, and he…

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“She made a long and detailed tour with no planned itinerary, stopping with no other motive than her unhurried delight in the…

— Gabriel García Márquez

There is bound to be someone driven mad by love who will give you the chance to study the effects of gold…

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“Fear had absorbed her completely and remained there, fixed, tenacious, almost corporeal, as if it were some invisible person who had made…

— Gabriel García Márquez

“Little by little she had been discovering the uncertainty of her husband's step, his mood changes, the gaps in his memory, his…

— Gabriel García Márquez

“But when she saw her eating with her hands, incapable of giving an answer that was not a miracle of simple-mindedness, the…

— Gabriel García Márquez

Thinking that it would console him, she took a piece of charcoal and erased the innumerable loves that he still owed her…

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

She let him finish, scratching his head with the tips of her fingers, and without his having revealed that he was weeping…

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

She wanted to be herself again, to recover all that she had been obliged to give up in half a century of…

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“Her movements were so stealthy that she seemed to be an invisible creature. Frightened by her strange nature, her mother had hung…

— Gabriel García Márquez

To him she seemed so beautiful, so seductive, so different from ordinary people, that he could not understand why no one was…

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Because he had not done what she, with her heart in her mouth, had hoped he would do, which was to be…

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

She felt so old, so worn out, so far away from the best moments of her life that she even yearned for…

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

She asked him to come and see her that night. He agreed, in order to get away, knowing that he was incapable…

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

It was as if they had leapt over the arduous cavalry of conjugal life and gone straight to the heart of love.…

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

The heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good.

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“She had that rare virtue of never existing completely except for that opportune monent.”

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“She loved him so much that instead of deceiving him she preferred to continue loving him...”

— Gabriel García Márquez

He did not dare to console her, knowing that it would have been like consoling a tiger run thru by a spear.

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

It was, at last, real life, with my heart safe and condemned to die of happy love in the joyful agony of…

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

He was still too young to know that the heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good, and that thanks to…

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“She was certain that the Vicario brothers were not as eager to carry out the sentence as to find someone who would…

— Gabriel García Márquez