868 Quotes by Gabriel García Márquez

They looked like two children," she told me. And that thought frightened her, because she'd always felt that only children are capable of everything.

Between the covers of the books that no one had ever read again, in the old parchments damaged by dampness, a livid flower had prospered, and in the air that had been the purest and brightest in the house an unbearable smell of rotten memories floated.

...time was not passing...it was turning in a circle...

All my life, I've been frightened at the moment I sit down to write.

I plead youth as a mitigating circumstance.

Just imagine, a cow on the balcony of the nation, what an awful thing, what a shitty country...

What does he say?' he asked. 'He’s very sad,’ Úrsula answered, ‘because he thinks that you’re going to die.' 'Tell him,' the colonel said, smiling, 'that a person doesn’t die when he should but when he can.

We'll grow old waiting.

The first of the line is tied to a tree and the last is being eaten by the ants .