From the moment I wrote 'Leaf Storm' I realized I wanted to be a writer and that nobody could stop me and… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
“Today I know I was right. The adolescents of my generation, greedy for life, forgot in body and soul about their hopes… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
“...It was then, for the first time, that she understood above all her virtues what was in command was the vanity of… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
“Dr. Urbino caught the parrot around the neck with a triumphant sigh: ça y est. But he released him immediately because the… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
“Amaranta would sigh, laugh, and dream of a second homeland of handsome men and beautiful women who spoke a childlike language, with… — Gabriel García Márquez 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
“In the end he read everything that came his way, and he did not have a favorite author but rather many who… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
The heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good; and thanks to this artifice we manage to endure the burdens of… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
“At twelve o’clock, when Aureli-ano, José had bled to death and Carmelita Montiel found that the cards showing her future were blank,… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
“At that time Macondo was a village of twenty adobe houses, built on the bank of a river of clear water that… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
A short time later, when the carpenter was taking measurements for the coffin, through the window they saw a light rain of… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez 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
“[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
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
“Around the time they were preparing Jose Arcadio for the seminary she had already made a detailed recapitulation of life in the… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
“... that the past is one lie, and the memory has no returning, becouse every old spring is beyond retrieve, and even… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
“The only thing that [Amaranta] did not keep in mind in her fearsome plan was that in spite of her pleas to… — Gabriel García Márquez 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
the bells of glory that announced to the world the good news that the uncountable time of eternity had come to an… — 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
Invulnerable to time, dedicated to the messianic happiness of thinking for us, knowing that we knew that he would not take any… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
“In the parlor was a huge camera on wheels like the ones used in public parks, and the backdrop of a marine… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
“Arcadio had seen her many times working in her parents' small food store but he had never taken a good look at… — 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… — 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
