The adolescents of my generation, greedy for life, forgot in body and soul about their hopes for the future until reality taught… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
it is a triumph of life that old people lose their memories of inessential things... — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
“they no longer felt like newlyweds, and even less like belated lovers. It was as if they had leapt over the arduous… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
“It is like a firstborn son: you spend your life working for him, sacrificing everything for him, and at the moment of… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
He thought about his people without sentimentality, with a strict closing of his accounts with life, beginning to understand how much he… — 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
“He was invaded by an unreasoning calm, which he interpreted as an omen that nothing new was going to happen, that everything… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
Fame invades your private life. It takes away from the time that you spend with friends, and the time that you can… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
He recognized her despite the uproar, through his tears of unrepeatable sorrow at dying without her, and he looked at her for… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
“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
“Before that, my life was always agitated by a tangle of tricks, feints and illusions intended to outwit the countless lures that… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I discovered the miracle that all things that sound are music, including the dishes and silverware in the dishwasher, as long as… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it. — 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
“What worries me is that out of so much hatred for the military, out of fighting them so much and thinking about… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
“A century ago, life screwed that poor man and me because we were too young, and now they want to do the… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Life in the world... was nothing more than a system of atavistic contracts, banal ceremonies, preordained words, with which people entertained each… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
I have never done anything except write, but I don't possess the vocation or talents of a narrator, have no knowledge at… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
Take advantage of it now, while you are young, and suffer all you can, because these things don't last your whole life. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
“But when they changed their plans time and time again, the dates became confused, the periods were mislaid, and one day seemed… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
Things have a life of their own," the gypsy proclaimed with a harsh accent. "It's simply a matter of waking up their… — 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
