“The only wars here will be civil wars, and those are like killing your own mother.” — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
The war is in the mountains,” he said. “For as long as I can remember, they have killed us in the cities… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
“And normality was precisely the most fearful part of that infinite war: nothing ever happened.” — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
“Bad luck doesn't have any chinks in it," he said with deep bitterness. "I was born a son of a bitch and… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
“You can't come in, colonel," she told him. "You may be in command of your war, but I'm in command of my… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
“HE had fled from her in an attempt to wipe out her memory, not only through distance but by means of a… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
“...Aureliano sympathized with the Liberal attitude with respect to the rights of natural children, but in any case, he could not understand… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
“But he recovered in a few hours, and as soon as his mind had cleared, he threw them out of the house… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
He could not understand why he had needed so many words to explain what he felt in war because one was enough:… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
He was weary of the uncertainty of the vicious circle of that eternal war that always found him in the same place,… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
“What worries me is that out of so much hatred for the military, out of fighting them so much and thinking about… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
“There was always someone outside of the chalk circle. Someone who needed money, someone who had a son with whooping cough, or… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
“Iturbide exclaimed: "Don't frighten me, General!" "Don't be frightened," said the General in a calm voice. "Go to Mexico, even if they… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
“Everyone will have gone then except us, because we're tied to this soil by a roomful of trunks where the household goods… — 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
