868 Quotes by Gabriel García Márquez

Hacía todo de un modo metódico y parsimonioso, como si no hubiera nada que no estuviera previsto para ella desde su nacimiento.

La edad no es la que uno tiene sino la que uno siente.

El tiempo acabó de desordenar las cosas

It was inevitable: the scent of bitter almonds always reminded him of the fate of unrequited love.

The year I turned ninety, I wanted to give myself the gift of a night of wild love with an adolescent virgin.

An ash-gray dog with a white blaze on its forehead burst onto the rough terrain of the market on the first Sunday in December, knocked down tables of fried food, overturned Indians' stalls and lottery kiosks, and bit four people who happened to cross its path.

Jose Palacios, his oldest servant, found him floating naked with his eyes open in the purifying waters of his bath and thought he had drowned.

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

For the city, his city, stood unchanging on the edge of time: the same burning dry city of his nocturnal terrors and the solitary pleasures of puberty, where flowers rusted and salt corroded, where nothing happened for four centuries except a slow ageing among withered laurels and purifying swamps.