“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
“t nightfall, at the oppressive moment of transition, a storm of carnivorous mosquitoes rose out of the swamps, and a tender breath… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
“The Widow Nazaret never missed her occasional appointments with Florentino Ariza, not even during her busiest times, and it was always without… — Gabriel García Márquez 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
“I see nothing that can unite us under the auspices of innocence and honor," he wrote to her. "In the future you… — 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
“It is like a firstborn son: you spend your life working for him, sacrificing everything for him, and at the moment of… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
“Science has eliminated distance,” Melquíades proclaimed. “In a short time, man will be able to see what is happening in any place… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
Her laugh was sad and taciturn, seemingly detached from any feeling of the moment, like something she kept in the cupboard and… — 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
Please allow me to wipe the slate clean. Age has no reality except in the physical world. The essence of a human… — 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
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
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
“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
“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
“... a woman who was washing clothes in the river during the hottest time of the day ran screaming down the main… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
“[S]he felt an irresistible longing to begin life with him over again so that they could say what they had left unsaid… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
“Nevertheless, in the impenetrable solitude of decrepitude she had such a clairvoyance as she examined the most insignificant happenings in the family… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
Fame invades your private life. It takes away from the time that you spend with friends, and the time that you can… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez 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
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
“Life would have been quite another matter for them both if they had learned in time that it was easier to avoid… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
“In a belated moment of inspiration, I decided to finish it with the announcement that with this column I was bringing to… — 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
“From that time on the parish priest began to show signs of senility that would lead him to say years later that… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
“The captain gave the order to fire. Arcadio barely had time to put out his chest and raise his head, not understanding… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
“Each thing, just by looking at it, aroused in me an irresistible longing to write so I would not die. I had… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
“We have to bring in the railroad,' he said. That was the first time the word had ever been heard in Macondo.… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
“Always. At every moment, asleep and awake, during the most sublime and most abject moments, Amaranta thought of Rebeca, because solitude had… — Gabriel Garcia Márquez Copy Share Image
“It was the history of the family, written by Melquíades, down to the most trivial details, one hundred years ahead of time.… — 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
“Look at the mess we've got ourselves into,' Colonel Aureliano Buendia said at that time, 'just because we invited a gringo to… — 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 Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
“But when they changed their plans time and time again, the dates became confused, the periods were mislaid, and one day seemed… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
People spend a lifetime thinking abouthow they would really like to live. I asked my friends and no one seems to know… — 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
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