In the beginning, when the world was new and nothing had a name, my father took me to see the ice. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
opened the door a crack wide enough for the entire world to pass through . — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
It is not that the girl is unfit for everything, it is that she is not of this world. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
The only Virgos left in the world are people like you who were born in August. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
This was his world, he said to himself, the sad, oppressive world that God had provided for him, and he was responsible… — 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 would not have traded the delights of my suffering for anything in the world. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
“the world isn't what it once was because there aren't many men like you left.” — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
Over the years they both reached the same wise conclusion by different paths: it was not possible to live together in any… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
The people of the United States are one of the people I most admire in the world. The only thing I don't… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
And nevertheless, when they watched him leave the house, this man they themselves had urged to conquer the world, then they were… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
“The world must be all fucked up,’ he said then, ‘when men travel first class and literature goes as freight.’ That was… — 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
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
The children would remember for the rest of their lives the august solemnity with which their father, devastated by his prolonged vigil… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
What Uncle Leo XIII never suspected was that his nephew's courage did not come from the need to survive or from a… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
She asked him to come and see her that night. He agreed, in order to get away, knowing that he was incapable… — 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
...and the cries of the birds and the uproar of the monkeys became more and more remote, and the world became eternally… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
She knew that it would not be easy to submit to his miserliness, or the foolishness of his premature appearance of age,… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
He thought that the world would make more rapid progress without the burden of old people. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
“The world must be all fucked up," he said then, "when men travel first class and literature goes as freight.” — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
She knew that he loved her above all else, more than anything in the world, but only for his own sake. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
the bells of glory that announced to the world the good news that the uncountable time of eternity had come to an… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
I became aware that the invincible power that has moved the world is unrequited, not happy, love. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
The world was reduced to the surface of her skin and her inner self was safe from all bitterness. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
“The world is divided into those who screw and those who do not. He distrusted those who did not—when they strayed from… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
Life in the world... was nothing more than a system of atavistic contracts, banal ceremonies, preordained words, with which people entertained each… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
I do not believe there is a method better than Montessori for making children sensitive to the beauties of the world and… — 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
