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
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
Her first reaction was one of hope, because his eyes were open and shining with a radiant light she had never seen… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
“All right, girl," he said to her, trembling with rage, "tell us who it was." She only took the time necessary to… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
When I sit down to write, which is the essential moment in my life, I am completely alone. Whenever I write a… — 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
“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
