Quotes from Gabriel Garcia Marquez

La fatalidad nos hace invisibles

It was then that she realized that the yellow butterflies preceded the appearances of Mauricio Babilonia.

The children would remember for the rest of their lives the august solemnity with which their father, devastated by his prolonged vigil and by the wraith of his imagination, revealed his discovery to them: 'The world is round, like an orange.

The past was a lie, memory has no return, every spring gone by could never be recovered, and the wildest and most tenacious love is an ephemeral truth in the end

Un buen escritor se aprecia mejor por lo que rompe que por lo que publica.

Friend is the person that holds your hand and touches your heart!

He thought about his people without sentimentalily, with a strick closing of his accounts with life, beginning to understand how much he really loved the people he hated the most.

Horses frighten me as much as chickens do,' he said. 'That is too bad, because lack of communication with horses has impeded human progress,' said Abrenuncio. 'If we ever broke down the barriers, we could produce the centaur.

She had the revelation one Sunday that while the other instruments played for everyone the violen played for her alone .

Let me stay here, he said. There was soap.

O became aware that the invincible power that has moved the world is unrequited, not happy, love.

Fatality makes us invisible.

He thought that the world would make more rapid progress without the burden of old people.

I can't think of any film that improved on a good novel, but I can think of many good films that came from very bad novels.

Ya lo verán, decía, se volverán a repartir todo entre los curas, los gringos y los ricos, y nada para los pobres... porque éstos estarán siempre tan jodidos que el día en que la mierda tenga algún valor los pobres nacerán sin culo.

That casual glance was the beginning of a cataclysm of love that had still not ended half a century later.

She nailed it to the wall with her well-aimed dart, like a butterfly with no will whose sentence has always been written.

Arcadio found the formality of death rediculous. Death really did not matter to him but life did, and therefore the sensation he felt when they gave their decision was not a feeling of fear but of nostalgia.

os seres humanos não nascem para sempre no dia em que as suas mães os dão à luz, mas que a vida os obriga uma e outra vez ainda a parirem-se a si mesmos.

Look at the mess we've got ourselves into,' Colonel Aureliano Buendia said at that time, 'just because we invited a gringo to eat some bananas.

By two o'clock in the morning they had each drunk three brandies, and he knew, in truth, that he was not the man she was looking for, and he was glad to know it. Bravo, lionlady, he said when he left. We have killed the tiger.

She had that rare virtue of never existing completely except for that opportune monent.

bagiku, tampak bahwa, bagaikan tanaman yg hidup, aku merupakan gambaran suatu dunia yang ideal; bahwa aku bukan hanya terdiri dari apa yang kuingin, apa yang kupikir -- aku juga adalah apa yang tidak aku cintai; apa yang TIDAK aku inginkan untuk menjelma

Intrigado con ese enigma, escarbó tan profundamente en los sentimientos de ella, que buscando el interés encontró el amor, porque buscando que ella lo quisiera terminó por quererla.