Gabriel García Márquez Quotes

الحكمة تأتينا في الوقت الذي لا تعود به ذات نفع

For a week, almost without speaking,
they went ahead like sleepwalkers through a universe of grief, lighted only by the tenuous
reflection of luminous insects, and their lungs were overwhelmed by a suffocating smell of blood.

...the invincible power that has moved the world is unrequited, not happy love

..the heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good, and [that] thanks to this artifice we manage to endure the burden of the past

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.

Very well, I will marry you if you promise not to make me eat eggplant.

I don't have a method. All I do is read a lot, think a lot, and rewrite constantly. It's not a scientific thing.

Today, when I saw you, I realized that what is between us is nothing more than an illusion.

It was the year they fell into devastating love. Neither one could do anything except think about the other, dream about the other, and wait for letters with the same impatience they felt when they answered them.

If God hadn't rested on Sunday, He would have had time to finish the world.

[A]nd both of them remained floating in an empty universe where the only everyday and eternal reality was love.

From the time they turned one they were tossed from the balconies of the kitchens, first with life preserves so they would lose their fear of the water, and then without life preservers so they would lose their respect for death.

Age isn't how old you are but how old you feel.

As I kissed her the heat of her body increased, and it exhaled a wild, untamed fragrance.

The adolescents of my generation, greedy for life, forgot in body and soul about their hopes for the future until reality taught them that tomorrow was not what they had dreamed, and they discovered nostalgia.