“But the lucidity of her old age allowed her to see, and she said so many times, that the cries of children… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
Four geological eras had to pass so that human beings would be able to outsing the birds and die for love. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
“The worst way to miss someone is to have them sitting right next to you and know you can never have them.” — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
“Love was always love anytine anyplace but it was more solid the closer it came to death .” — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
Just because someone does not love you as you want, it does not mean that you do not love with all his… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez 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 García Márquez Copy Share Image
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 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
his examination revealed that he had no fever, no pain anywhere, and that his only concrete feeling was an urgent desire to… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
As a writer I'm merely a journalist who has learned to write better than others. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
...The girl raised her eyes to see who was passing by the window, and that casual glance was the beginning of a… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
“Think of love as a state of grace not as a means to anything... but an end in itself.” — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
The only regret I will have in dying is if it is not for love. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
With her Florentino Ariza learned what he had already experienced many times without realizing it: that one can be in love with… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
“We men are the miserable slaves of prejudice. But when a woman decides to sleep with a man, there is no wall… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
For a week I did not take off my mechanic's coverall day or night I did not bathe or shave or brush… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
“That casual glance was the beginning of a cataclysm of love that had still not ended half a century later.” — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
“Opposite her, calming his peaceful hunger, was old Jacob, a man who had loved her so much and for so long that… — 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
