“They were two happy lovers among the crowd, and they came to suspect that love could be a feeling that was more… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
“And she did not have to see him to know that he was there, because the butterflies were always there.” — Gabriel García Márquez 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
“You're a great man, General, greater than anyone," she told him. "But love is still too big for you.” — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
He would wake for no reason in the middle of the night, and the memory of the self-absorbed love was revealed to… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
his mysterious resources had awakened in her a curiosity that was difficult to resist, but she had never imagined that curiosity was… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
“He was another person, despite his firm decision and anguished effort to continue to be the same man he had been before… — Gabriel García Márquez 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
“In Paris, strolling arm in arm with a casual sweetheart through a late autumn, it seemed impossible to imagine a purer happiness… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
“O became aware that the invincible power that has moved the world is unrequited, not happy, love.” — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
“and without his having revealed that he was weeping from love, she recognized immediately the oldest sobs in the history of man.” — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
Wherever they might be they always remember that the past was a lie, that memory has no return, that every spring gone… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
Love does not die, when someone gets old, people get old, because they can not love anymore. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
I always had understood that dying of love was mere poetic license. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
“...the invincible power that has moved the world is unrequited, not happy love” — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
“She made a visual inventory of the disaster and confirmed that the girl was curled up like a snail, her head hidden… — 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
“she was also not convinced that love was really what she most needed to live. In” — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
“It had to be a mad dream, one that would give her the courage she would need to discard the prejudices of… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez 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
There was a house at the foot of the tower, close to the thunder of the waves breaking against the cliffs, where… — 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