Gabriel Garcia Marquez Quotes
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Together they had overcome the daily incomprehension, the instantaneous hatred, the reciprocal nastiness, and fabulous flashes of glory in the conjugal conspiracy. It was time when they both 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 moral trials, of course, but that no longer mattered: they were on the other shore.
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He was still too young to know that 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.
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One could be happy not only without love, but despite it.
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He sank into the rocking chair, the same one in which Rebecca had sat during the early days of the house to give embroidery lessons, and in which Amaranta had played Chinese checkers with Colonel Gerineldo Marquez, and in which Amarana Ursula had sewn the tiny clothing for the child, and in that flash of lucidity he became aware that he was unable to bear in his soul the crushing weight of so much past.
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Caribbean reality resembles the wildest imagination.
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How will I ever get out of this labyrinth!
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Love is not a condition of the spirit but a sign of the zodiac.
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A lie is more comfortable than doubt, more useful than love, more lasting than truth.
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Four geological eras had to pass so that human beings would be able to outsing the birds and die for love.
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Music is important for one's health.
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Jealousy knows more than truth does.
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...The girl raised her eyes to see who was passing by the window, and that casual glance was the beginning of a cataclysm of love that still had not ended half a century later.
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...races condemned to 100 years of solitude did not have a second opportunity on earth.
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Nobody teaches life anything.
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There's no greater misfortune than dying alone.
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Surrealism comes from the reality of Latin America.
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In the beginning, when the world was new and nothing had a name, my father took me to see the ice.
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Just as real events are forgotten, some that never were can be in our memories as if they happened.
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Ah, me, if this is love, then how it torments.
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Just imagine, a cow on the balcony of the nation, what an awful thing, what a shitty country.
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Shame has poor memory.
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His place was always set at the table, in case he returned from the dead without warning .
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In the end all books are written for your friends. The problem after writing One Hundred Years of Solitude was that now I no longer know whom of the millions of readers I am writing for; this upsets and inhibits me. It's like a million eyes are looking at you and you don't really know what they think.
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Very well, I will marry you if you promise not to make me eat eggplant.