868 Quotes by Gabriel García Márquez

One of the most difficult things is the first paragraph. I have spent many months on a first paragraph, and once I get it, the rest just comes out very easily.

Her first reaction was one of hope, because his eyes were open and shining with a radiant light she had never seen there before. She prayed to God to give him at least a moment so that he would not go without knowing how much she had love him despite all their doubts, and she felt an irresistible longing to begin life with him over again so that they could say what they had left unsaid and do everything right that they had done badly in the past. But she had to give in to the intransigence of death. (Love in the Time of Cholera)

Sex is one's consolation when love is not enough

Over the weekend the vultures got into the presidential palace by pecking through the screens on the balcony windows and the flapping of their wings stirred up the stagnant time inside, and at dawn on Monday the city awoke out of its lethargy of centuries with the warm, soft breeze of a great man dead and rotting grandeur.

The world was reduced to the surface of her skin and her inner self was safe from all bitterness.

In the beginning, when the world was new and nothing had a name, my father took me to see the ice.

It's much more important to write than to be written about.

Even when the winds of misfortune blow, amazing things can still happen.

A falcon who chases a warlike crane can only hope for a life of pain.