Gaston was not only a fierce lover, with endless wisdom and imagination, but he was also, perhaps, the first man in the… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
“El sexo es el consuelo que le queda a uno cuando ya no le alcanza el amor.” — Gabriel García Márquez 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 García Márquez Copy Share Image
“I did not bathe or shave or brush my teeth, because love taught me too late that you groom yourself for someone,… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
“She took refuge in her newborn son. she had felt him leave her body with a sensation of relief at freeing herself… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
The truth was that I could not manage my soul, and I was becoming aware of old age because of my weakness… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
Her first reaction was one of hope, because his eyes were open and shining with a radiant light she had never seen… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
“One night she came back from her daily walk stunned by the revelation that one could be happy not only without love,… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
She would defend herself, saying that love, no matter what else it might be, was a natural talent. She would say: You… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
“Aureliano Segundo thought without saying so that the evil was not in the world but in some hidden place in the mysterious… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
“And only after he said it did he realize that among the countless suicides he could remember, this was the first with… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
“Tired of his lack of understanding, she asked him for an unusual birthday gift: that for one day he would take care… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
“She belived that whatever happened to one love affected other loves throught the world .” — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
[The captain] looked at Florentino Ariza, his invincible power, his intrepid love and was overwhelmed by the belated suspicion that it is… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
“Madly in love after so many years of sterile complicity, they enjoyed the miracle of loving each other as much at the… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
“But the next morning, while night owls slept, I climbed trembling to her cubicle and woke her, weeping aloud with a crazed… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
“It is incredible how one can be happy for so many years in the midst of so many squabbles, so many problems,… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
She had never imagined that curiosty was one of the many masks of love . — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
In the plenitude of their relationship, Florentina Ariza asked himself which of the two was love: the turbulent bed or the peaceful… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
“We men are the slaves of prejudice,' he had once said to her. 'But when a woman decides to sleep with a… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
“The weak would never enter the kingdom of love, which is a harsh & ungenerous kingdom & that women gives themselves only… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
Then he made one last effort to search in his heart for the place where his affection had rotted away, and he… — 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