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.

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez
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Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez Quotes

Only God knows how much I love you.

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez
About Heart Romantic Short Love I Love You I Love You for Her

The only regret I will have in dying is if it is not for love.

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez
Love You Romantic You Are Loved Love for Husband Regret

He was carrying a suitcase with clothing in order to stay and another just like it with almost two thousand letters that she had written him. They were arranged by date in bundles ties with colored ribbons, and they were all unopened.

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

Her laugh was sad and taciturn, seemingly detached from any feeling of the moment, like something she kept in the cupboard and took out only when she had to, using it with no feeling of ownership, as if the infrequency of her smiles had made her forget the normal way to use them.

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

In some way impossible to ascertain, after so many years of absense, Jose Arcadio was still an autumnal child, terribly sad and solitary.

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

Very well, I will marry you if you promise not to make me eat eggplant.

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

I want the same one, the way she always is, without failures, without fights, without bad memories.

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

Once again she shuddered with the evidence that time was not passing, as she had just admitted, but that it was turning in a circle.

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

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

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

He soon acquired the forlorn look that one sees in vegetarians.

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

She knew that he loved her above all else, more than anything in the world, but only for his own sake.

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

Then the writing became so fluid that I sometimes felt as if I were writing for the sheer pleasure of telling a story, which may be the human condition that most resembles levitation.

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez
About Stories

My most important problem was destroying the lines of demarcation that separate what seems real from what seems fantastic.

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez
Real

Make no mistake: peaceful madmen are ahead of the future.

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

Love is not a condition of the spirit but a sign of the zodiac.

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

Fernanda, on the other hand, looked for it in vain along the paths of her everyday itinerary without knowing that the search for lost things is hindered by routine habits and that is why it is so difficult to find them.

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

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.

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

He governed as if he felt predestined to never die.

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

Sex is one’s consolation when love is not enough.

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry.

— Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez
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