Gabriel Garcia Marquez Quotes

The first of the line is tied to a tree and the last is being eaten by the ants .

How strange women are.

I’ve remained a virgin for you.

The world was reduced to the surface of her skin and her inner self was safe from all bitterness.

Fame invades your private life. It takes away from the time that you spend with friends, and the time that you can work. It tends to isolate you from the real world.

Give me a prejudice and I will move the world.

One never quite stops believing, some doubt remains forever".

From the moment I wrote 'Leaf Storm' I realized I wanted to be a writer and that nobody could stop me and that the only thing left for me to do was to try to be the best writer in the world.

She had the revelation one Sunday that while the other instruments played for everyone the violen played for her alone .

Tell him,' the colonel said, smiling, 'that a person doesn’t die when he should but when he can.

Morality, too, is a question of time.

Most fatal diseases had their own specific odor, but ... none was as specific as old age.

Thus they went on living in a reality that was slipping away, momentarily captured by words, but which would escape irremediably when they forgot the values of the written letters.

[The captain] looked at Florentino Ariza, his invincible power, his intrepid love and was overwhelmed by the belated suspicion that it is life, more than death, that has no limits.

The woman let out an expansive laugh that resounded through the house like a spray of broken glass.

[A mother] discovers with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.

The most important thing in marriage is not happiness but stability.

The heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good and thanks to this artifice we manage to endure the burdens of the past.