868 Quotes by Gabriel García Márquez

his mysterious resources had awakened in her a curiosity that was difficult to resist, but she had never imagined that curiosity was one of the many masks of love.

...and the cries of the birds and the uproar of the monkeys became more and more remote, and the world became eternally sad. The men on the expedition felt overwhelmed by their most ancient memories in that paradise of dampness and silence, going back to before original sin, as their boots sank into pools of steaming oil and their machetes destroyed bloody lilies and golden salamanders.

Santiago Nasar had often told me that the smell of closed-in flowers had an immediate relation to death for him.

Justice limps along, but gets there all the same.

I don't believe in God, but I'm afraid of Him.

Life is but a continual succession of opportunities for surviving.

The heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good.

If men gave birth, they'd be less inconsiderate.

opened the door a crack wide enough for the entire world to pass through .