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
All my life, I've been frightened at the moment I sit down to write. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez 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
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 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
“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
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
“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
“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
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
“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
“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
If God hadn't rested on Sunday, He would have had time to finish the world. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
“I remembered that she had also looked at me in that way in the past, from that remote dream where I made… — Gabriel García Márquez 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
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
“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
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
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
“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
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
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
“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
