“...as he discovered in the course of his uncountable years that a lie is more comfortable than doubt, more useful than love,… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
“All that was needed was a shrewd questioning, first of the patient and then of his mother, to conclude once again that… — Gabriel Garcia Márquez Copy Share Image
“Florentino Ariza wrote everything with so much passion that even official documents seem to be about love. His bills of lading were… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
“I'll never fall in love again," he once confessed to José Palacios, the only human being with whom he ever permitted himself… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“The only certainty was that they took everything with them: money, December breezes, the bread knife, thunder at 3 in the afternoon,… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
The house became full of love. Aureliano expressed it in poetry that had no beginning and no end. He would write it… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
Over the years they both reached the same wise conclusion by different paths: it was not possible to live together in any… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
“The feverish excitement of twenty had been something very noble, very beautiful, but it had not been love.” — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
But that afternoon he asked himself, with his infinite capacity for illusion, if such pitiless indifference might not be a subterfuge for… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
“[T]hink of love as a state of grace: not the means to anything but the alpha and omega, an end in itself.” — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
“I could not resist the temptation to ask: Tell me something, Damiana: what do you recall? I wasn't recalling anything, she said,… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
we had made love without love, half-dressed most of the time and always in the dark so we could imagine ourselves as… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
“He dug so deeply into her sentiments that in search of interest he found love, because by trying to make her love… — 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
“he was the lover who never showed his face, the man most avid for love as well as most niggardly with it,… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
“they had lived together long enough to know that love was always love, anytime and anyplace, but it was more solid the… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
“no medicine cures what happiness cannot. - of love and other demons” — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
“Fermina, he said, I have waited for this opportunity for more than half a century, to repeat to you once again my… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
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 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
