Gabriel García Márquez Quotes

My God, if I had a heart, I would write my hate on ice, and wait for the sun to show.

The weak would never enter the kingdom of love.

El mundo habrá acabado de joderse -dijo entonces- el día en que los hombres viajen en primera clase y la literatura en el vagón de carga.

Amputees suffer pains, cramps, itches in the leg that is no longer there. That is how she felt without him, feeling his presence where he no longer was.

Había estado en la muerte, en efecto, pero había regresado porque no pudo soportar la soledad.

"The world must be all fucked up," he said then, "when men travel first class and literature goes as freight."

One minute of reconciliation is worth more than a whole life of friendship!

In the beginning, when the world was new and nothing had a name, my father took me to see the ice.

In the end, it is impossible not to become what others believe you are.

El hecho de que alguien no te ame como tú quieras, no significa que no te ame con todo su ser.

Tell him yes. Even if you are dying of fear, even if you are sorry later, because whatever you do, you will be sorry all the rest of your life if you say no.

"Let me stay here," he said. "There was soap."

Nobody teaches life anything.

She wanted to be herself again, to recover all that she had been obliged to give up in half a century of servitude that had doubtless made her happy but which, once her husband was dead, did not leave her even the vestiges of her identity.

It was the time when they loved each other best, without hurry or excess, when both were most conscious of and grateful for their incredible victories over adversity. Life would still present them with other mortal trails, of course, but that no longer mattered: they were on the other shore.