Alpha and omega Quote by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“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

“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

“He aprendido que un hombre sólo tiene derecho a mirar a otro hacia abajo cuando ha de ayudarle a levantarse.”

— Gabriel García Márquez

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

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

“Berhentilah sepi, hidup ini pendek.”

— Gabriel García Márquez

“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

“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

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

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

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

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