Gabriel Garcia Marquez Quotes
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He was weary of the uncertainty of the vicious circle of that eternal war that always found him in the same place, but always older, wearier, even more in the position of not knowing why, or how, or even when.
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He shook my hand and said goodbye with a sentence that might have been either good advice or a threat: "Take good care of yourself.
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I can't think of any one film that improved on a good novel, but I can think of many good films that came from very bad novels.
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The weak would never enter the kingdom of love.
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With her Florentino Ariza learned what he had already experienced many times without realizing it: that one can be in love with several people at the same time, feel the same sorrow with each, and not betray any of them. Alone in the midst of the crowd on the pier, he said to himself in a flash of anger: 'My heart has more rooms than a whorehouse.
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There [is] no innocence more dangerous than the innocence of age.
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In her final years she would still recall the trip that, with the perverse lucidity of nostalgia, became more and more recent in her memory.
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Unfortunately many young writers are more concerned with fame than with their own work... It's much more important to write than to be written about.
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No matter what, nobody can take away the dances you've already had.
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The truth was that I could not manage my soul, and I was becoming aware of old age because of my weakness in the face of love.
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The world was reduced to the surface of her skin and her inner self was safe from all bitterness.
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She always had a headache, or it was too hot, always, or she pretended to be asleep, or she had her period again, her period, always her period. So much so that Dr. Urbino had dared to say in class, only for the relief of unburdening himself without confession, that after ten years of marriage women had their periods as often as threes times a week.
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Children's lies are signs of great talent.
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My most important problem was destroying the lines of demarcation that separate what seems real from what seems fantastic.
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Her nakedness was not absolute, for like Manet's _Olympia__, behind her ear she had a poisonous flower with orange petals, and she also wore a gold bangle on her right wrist and a necklace of tiny pearls. I imagined I would never see anything more exciting for as long as I lived, and today I can confirm that I was right.
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he dared to explore her withered neck w/his fingertips…her hips w/their decaying bones, her thighs with their aging veins.
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He pleaded so much that he lost his voice. His bones began to fill with words.
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...opened the door a crack wide enough for the entire world to pass through .
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Over the years they both reached the same wise conclusion by different paths: it was not possible to live together in any other way, or love in any other way, and nothing in this world was more difficult than love.
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Sex is the consolation you have when you can't have love.
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Carmelia Montiel, a twenty-year-old virgin, had just bathed in orange-blossom water and was strewing rosemary leaves on Pilar Ternera's bed when the shot rang out. Aureliano José had been destined to find with her the happiness that Amaranta had denied him, to have seven children, and to die in her arms of old age, but the bullet that entered his back and shattered his chest had been directed by a wrong interpretation of the cards.
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a process of aging had taken place in him that was so rapid and critical that soon he was being treated as one of those useless great-grandfathers who wander about the bedroom like shades, dragging their feet, remembering better times aloud, and whom no one bother about or remembers really until the morning they find them dead in their bed.
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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.
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Humanity, like armies in the field, advances at the speed of the slowest.