It's enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
All my life, I've been frightened at the moment I sit down to write. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
At some point, you no longer feel pain. Sensation disappears and reason is dulled, until you lose all grasp of time and… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
Each man is master of his own death, and all that we can do when the time comes is to help him… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
“But if they had learned anything together, it was that wisdom comes to us when it can no longer do any good.” — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
“Thank God I found my Chinaman in time. It's like being married to your little finger, but he's all mine.” — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
“I returned home tormented by the little demon who whispers into our ear the devastating replies we didn’t give at the right… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
we had made love without love, half-dressed most of the time and always in the dark so we could imagine ourselves as… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
and the two of them loved each other for a long time in silence without making love again. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
If God hadn't rested on Sunday, He would have had time to finish the world. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
The only thing he could do to stay alive was not to allow himself the anguish of that memory. He erased it… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
Wherever they might be they always remember that the past was a lie, that memory has no return, that every spring gone… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez 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
It was the last that remained of a past whose annihilation had not taken place because it was still in a process… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
He was still too young to know that the heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good, and that thanks to… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez 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 adolescents of my generation, greedy for life, forgot in body and soul about their hopes for the future until reality taught… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
He spent six hours examining things, trying to find a difference from their appearance on the previous day in the hope of… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
If I knew that today would be the last time I’d see you, I would hug you tight and pray the Lord… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
“On Monday, however, when he returned to his house on the Street of Windows, he discovered a letter floating in a puddle… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
He recognized her despite the uproar, through his tears of unrepeatable sorrow at dying without her, and he looked at her for… — 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
She felt so old, so worn out, so far away from the best moments of her life that she even yearned for… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
“She returned many years later. So much time had passed that the smell of musk in the room had blended in with… — 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
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
“For the city, his city, stood unchanging on the edge of time: the same burning dry city of his nocturnal terrors and… — Gabriel García Márquez 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
“Since Aureliano at that time had very confused notions about the difference between Conservatives and Liberals, his father in law gave him… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez 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
“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
“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
“She had that rare virtue of never existing completely except for that opportune moment” — 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
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
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
Once again she shuddered with the evidence that time was not passing, as she had just admitted, but that it was turning… — 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