Marriage Quotes by Gabriel García Márquez

16 Marriage quotes by Gabriel García Márquez

All Marriage quotes Gabriel García Márquez’s page

Marquez’s prose drips with wonder, and his marriage musings echo that enchantment. Though only sixteen, each quote merges everyday partnership with a touch of the extraordinary.

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“Thing in good marriage is not happiness but stabilty .”

Gabriel García Márquez

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Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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A man should have two wives: one to love and one to sew on his buttons.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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An early-rising man is a good spouse but a bad husband.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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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

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“Opposite her, calming his peaceful hunger, was old Jacob, a man who had loved her so much and for so long that…

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“Men demand much more than you think," she would tell her enigmatically. "There's a lot of cooking, a lot of sweeping, a…

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“Fiction was invented the day Jonah arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been…

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“I see nothing that can unite us under the auspices of innocence and honor," he wrote to her. "In the future you…

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“Little by little she had been discovering the uncertainty of her husband's step, his mood changes, the gaps in his memory, his…

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Everything that belonged to her husband made her weep again: his tasseled slippers, his pajamas under the pillow, the space of his…

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She always had a headache, or it was too hot, always, or she pretended to be asleep, or she had her period…

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She wanted to be herself again, to recover all that she had been obliged to give up in half a century of…

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“She was able to draw no conclusions because her husband's patients, except for mutual friends, were part of his private domain; they…

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“Since Aureliano at that time had very confused notions about the difference between Conservatives and Liberals, his father in law gave him…

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“She could not avoid a profound feeling of rancor toward her husband for having left her alone in the middle of the…

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