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 Copy Share Image
Tell him yes. Even if you are dying of fear, even if you are sorry later, because whatever you do, you will… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
It was also her nature that caused her letters to avoid emotional pitfalls and confine themselves to relating the events of her… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
“Ya me sobrará tiempo para descansar cuando me muera, pero esta eventualidad no está todavía en mis proyectos.” — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
Life had already given him sufficient reasons for knowing that no defeat was the final one. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
For you was I born, for you do I have life, for you will I die, for you am I now dying. — 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
“Life would have been quite another matter for them both if they had learned in time that it was easier to avoid… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
I do not believe there is a method better than Montessori for making children sensitive to the beauties of the world and… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
It's much more important to write than to be written about. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
“Until I discovered the miracle that all things that sound are music, including dishes and silverware in the dishwasher, as long as… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
All my life, I've been frightened at the moment I sit down to write. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
To oppression, plundering and abandonment, we respond with life. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
Please allow me to wipe the slate clean. Age has no reality except in the physical world. The essence of a human… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
The rain would not have bothered Fernanda, after all, her whole life had been spent as if it were raining. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
People spend a lifetime thinking abouthow they would really like to live. I asked my friends and no one seems to know… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
“In a belated moment of inspiration, I decided to finish it with the announcement that with this column I was bringing to… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
You have to have spent the night at sea, sitting in a life raft and looking at your watch, to know that… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
Taught him the only thing he had to learn about love: that nobody teaches life anything. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
“Always. At every moment, asleep and awake, during the most sublime and most abject moments, Amaranta thought of Rebeca, because solitude had… — Gabriel Garcia Márquez Copy Share Image
...human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but...life obliges them over… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
“Things have a life of their own. It’s simply a matter of waking up their souls.” — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“Then he looked at Florentino Ariza, his invincible power, his intrepid love, and he was overwhelmed by the belated suspicion that it… — 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
