“The Captain looked at Fermina Daza and saw on her eyelashes the first glimmer of wintry frost. Then he looked at Florentino… — 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… — 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… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez 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… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
“Amaranta, however, whose hardness of heart frightened her, whose concentrated bitterness made her bitter, suddenly became clear to her in the final… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
A falcon who chases a warlike crane can only hope for a life of pain. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
All human beings have three lives: public, private, and secret. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
He allowed himself to be swayed by his conviction that human beings are not born once and for all on the day… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
“Human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mother gives birth to them, but that life obliges… — 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
“A trickle of blood came out under the door, crossed the living room, went out into the street, continued on in a… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
The problem in public life is learning to overcome terror; the problem in married life is learning to overcome boredom. — 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
“I told her about my life, I read into her ear the first drafts of my Sunday columns in which, without my… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
And nevertheless, when they watched him leave the house, this man they themselves had urged to conquer the world, then they were… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
“The audacious telegraph operator took the flower from his buttonhole and said to her: "I give you my life in this rose.” — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
“From then on I began to measure my life not by years but by decades.” — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
“[S]he felt an irresistible longing to begin life with him over again so that they could say what they had left unsaid… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
“She reminded him that the weak will never enter the kingdom of love, which is a harsh and ungenerous kingdom,and that women… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
One minute of reconciliation is worth more than a whole life of friendship! — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
Life is not what one lived, but what One remembers and how One remembers it in order to recount it — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
“I never have thought about age as a leak in the roof indicating the quantity of life one has left to live.” — 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
