and the two of them loved each other for a long time in silence without making love again. — 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
No matter what, nobody can take away the dances you've already had. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez 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
“O became aware that the invincible power that has moved the world is unrequited, not happy, love.” — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
A lie is more comfortable than doubt, more useful than love, more lasting than truth. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
It's enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
There is bound to be someone driven mad by love who will give you the chance to study the effects of gold… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez 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
“The past was a lie, memory has no return, every spring gone by could never be recovered, and the wildest and most… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
To all, I would say how mistaken they are when they think that they stop falling in love when they grow old,… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez 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
“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
“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
“...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
Although some men who were easy with their words said that it was worth sacrificing one’s life for a night of love… — 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
It was the time when they loved each other best, without hurry or excess, when both were most conscious of and grateful… — 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
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
“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
“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
“I always had understood that dying of love was mere poetic license. That afternoon, back home again without the cat and without… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
“The truth is that Dr. Juvenal Urbino's suit had never been undertaken in the name of love, and it was curious, to… — 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
“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
“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
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
“Upset by two nostalgias facing each other like two mirrors, he lost his marvelous sense of unreality and he ended up recommending… — 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
“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
“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
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
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
“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
“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
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
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
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
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
“Fear had absorbed her completely and remained there, fixed, tenacious, almost corporeal, as if it were some invisible person who had made up his… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share
“Today I know I was right. The adolescents of my generation, greedy for life, forgot in body and soul about their hopes for the… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share
“...It was then, for the first time, that she understood above all her virtues what was in command was the vanity of a metaphysical… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share