When I wake up," he said, "remind me that I'm going to marry her. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
Florentina Ariza had kept his answer ready for fifty-three years, seven months and eleven days and nights. 'Forever,' he said. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
Both described at the same time how it was always March there and always Monday, and then they understood that José Arcadio… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
This was his world, he said to himself, the sad, oppressive world that God had provided for him, and he was responsible… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez 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
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
He said that people who loved [animals] to excess were capable of the worst cruelties toward human beings. He said that dogs… — 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
He shook my hand and said goodbye with a sentence that might have been either good advice or a threat: "Take good… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
He said that love was an emotion contra natura that condemned two strangers to a base and unhealthy dependence, and the more… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
I don't know who said that novelists read the novels of others only to figure out how they are written. I believe… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
The truth is I'm getting old, I said. We already are old, she said with a sigh. What happens is that you… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
Horses frighten me as much as chickens do,’ he said. ‘That is too bad, because lack of communication with horses has impeded… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
Don't open that door," she said. "The hallway is full of difficult dreams." And I asked her: "How do you know?" And… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
Little by little, studying the infinite possibilities of a loss of memory, he realized that the day might come when things would… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
The war is in the mountains,” he said. “For as long as I can remember, they have killed us in the cities… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
What does he say?' he asked. 'He’s very sad,’ Úrsula answered, ‘because he thinks that you’re going to die.' 'Tell him,' the… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
Tell him,' the colonel said, smiling, 'that a person doesn’t die when he should but when he can. — 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
“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