868 Quotes by Gabriel García Márquez

It was the time when they 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 mortal trails, of course, but that no longer mattered: they were on the other shore.

It had to teach her to think of love as a state of grace: not the means to anything but the alpha and omega, an end it itself.

There is no innocence more dangerous than the innocence of age.

وأخيراً أنبلج الخرًاج الذي تحمله طواله حياته منفجراً قائلا: "فيرمينا، لقد أنتظرت أكثر من نصف قرن لأاجدد لك العهد بالوفاء والحب الأزلي" .

It is like a firstborn son: you spend your life working for him, sacrificing everything for him, and at the moment of truth he does just as he pleases.

Mientras se abanica con el sombrero el rostro trastornado por la sofocación y el aguardiente, mirando hacia la soga, calculando su fuerza, él dice: `Es imposible que una soga tan delgada haya sostenido su cuerpo´. Y yo le digo: `Esa misma soga ha estado sosteniéndole en la hamaca durante muchos años´.

I'm old, sick, tired, disillusioned, harassed, slandered, and unappreciated.

Even before his eyes began to fail he had his secretaries read to him, and then he read no other way because of the annoyance that eyeglasses caused him. But his interest in what he read was decreasing at the same time, and as always he attributed this to a cause beyond his control."The fact is there are fewer and fewer good books," he would say.

She would defend herself, saying that love, no matter what else it might be, was a natural talent. She would say: You are either born knowing how, or you never know.