When I wake up," he said, "remind me that I'm going to marry her. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
The year I turned ninety, I wanted to give myself the gift of a night of wild love with an adolescent virgin. — 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
It was inevitable: the scent of bitter almonds always reminded him of the fate of unrequited love. — 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
Love is not a condition of the spirit but a sign of the zodiac. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
“She loved him so much that instead of deceiving him she preferred to continue loving him...” — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
“Don't let yourself die without knowing the wonder of fucking with love.” — 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
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
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
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
This was when she asked him whether it was true that love conquered all, as the songs said. 'It is true', he… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
and it was always without pretensions of loving or being loved although always in the hope of finding something that resembled love… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez 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
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
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
In that Macondo forgotten even by the birds, where the dust and the heat had become so strong that it was difficult… — 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
“The act was an exorcism of relief for Florentino Ariza, for when he put the violin back into its case and walked… — 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 Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
“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
“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
“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
“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
“no medicine cures what happiness cannot. - of love and other demons” — 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
“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
“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
“[O]ne can be in love with several people at the same time, feel the same sorrow with each, and not betray any… — 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
It had to teach her to think of love as a state of grace: not the means to anything but the alpha… — 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
...they enjoyed the miracle of loving each other as much at the table as in bed, and they grew to be so… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
“The driver warned me: Be careful, scholar, they kill in that house. I replied: If it's for love it doesn't matter.” — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
“The night was over, for he did not dare to play forbidden games with a woman who had proven too many times… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
“Hildebranda had a universal conception of love, and she believed that whatever happened to one love affected all other loves throughout the… — 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
[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
I think just the opposite is true: love is an ideology for eternal militants, and the more misfortunes life tries to burden… — 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
“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