“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
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
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
“... 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
“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
“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
“[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
“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
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
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
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
“It was the first time in a half century that they had been so close and had enough time to look at… — 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
Over the weekend the vultures got into the presidential palace by pecking through the screens on the balcony windows and the flapping… — 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
“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
“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
and the two of them loved each other for a long time in silence without making love again. — 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
