“because races condemned to one hundred years of solitude did not have a second opportunity on earth” — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
races condemned to 100 years of solitude did not have a second opportunity on earth. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
“Her movements were so stealthy that she seemed to be an invisible creature. Frightened by her strange nature, her mother had hung… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
“After searching for it uselessly in the taste of the earth, in the perfumed letters from Pietro Crespi, in the tempestuous bed… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
It was also her nature that caused her letters to avoid emotional pitfalls and confine themselves to relating the events of her… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
“But what worries me is not your shooting me, because after all, for people like us it's a natural death." He laid… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
“No one understood why she had not died of hunger until the Indians, who were aware of everything, for they went ceaselessly… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
i discovered that my obsession for having each thing in the right place, each subject at the right time, each word in… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
“Ursula wondered if it was not preferable to lie down once and for all in her grave and let them throw the… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
“...Aureliano sympathized with the Liberal attitude with respect to the rights of natural children, but in any case, he could not understand… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
Before reaching the final line, however, he had already understood that he would never leave that room, for it was foreseen that… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
“On rainy afternoons, embroidering with a group of friends on the begonia porch, she would lose the thread of the conversation and… — 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 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 lessons, and in which Amaranta had played Chinese checkers with Colonel Gerineldo Marquez, and in which Amarana Ursula had sewn the tiny clothing for the child, and in that flash of lucidity he became aware that… — 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 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 was all something dirty that shouldn't be done to anybody, much less to the poor man who had the bad luck to marry me.' So she let herself get undressed openly in the lighted bedroom, safe… — 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 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
