Gabriel Garcia Marquez
She always had a headache, or it was too hot, always, or she pretended to be asleep, or she had her period again, her period, always her period. So much so that Dr. Urbino had dared to say in class, only for the relief of unburdening himself without confession, that after ten years of marriage women had their periods as often as threes times a week.Collection: Years
When he went through the kitchen he kissed Rebeca on the forehead. "Get those bad thoughts out of your head," he told her. "You're going to be happy.Collection: Kitchen
For they had lived together long enough to know that love was always love, anytime and anyplace, but it was more solid the closer it came to death.Collection: Long
This was when I heard that the first symptom of old age is when you begin to resemble your father.Collection: Father
She knew that it would not be easy to submit to his miserliness, or the foolishness of his premature appearance of age, or his maniacal sense of order, or his eagerness to as for everything and give nothing at all in return, but despite all this, no man was better company because no other man in the world was so in need of love.Collection: Love
Both described at the same time how it was always March there and always Monday, and then they understood that José Arcadio Buendía was not as crazy as the family said, but that he was the only one who had enough lucidity to sense the truth of the fact that time also stumbled and had accidents and could therefore splinter and leave an eternalized fragment in a room.Collection: Monday
He did not dare to console her, knowing that it would have been like consoling a tiger run thru by a spear.Collection: Running
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.Collection: Horse
You can't eat hope,' the woman said. You can't eat it, but it sustains you,' the colonel replied.Collection: Said
The weak would never enter the kingdom of love.Collection: Kingdoms
When you have a healthy appetite there is no such thing as bad bread.Collection: Healthy
To oppression, plundering and abandonment, we respond with life.Collection: Oppression
In the beginning, when the world was new and nothing had a name, my father took me to see the ice.Collection: Father
She would defend herself, saying that love, no matter what else it might be, was a natural talent. She would say: You are either born knowing how, or you never know.Collection: Love
Jealousy knows more than truth does.Collection: Doe
The problem in public life is learning to overcome terror; the problem in married life is learning to overcome boredom.Collection: Boredom
How will I ever get out of this labyrinth!Collection: Halloween
Over the years they both reached the same wise conclusion by different paths: it was not possible to live together in any other way, or love in any other way, and nothing in this world was more difficult than love.Collection: Wise
And both of them remained floating in an empty universe where the only everyday & eternal reality was love.Collection: Reality
races condemned to 100 years of solitude did not have a second opportunity on earth.Collection: Opportunity
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.Collection: Circles
It was also her nature that caused her letters to avoid emotional pitfalls and confine themselves to relating the events of her daily life in the utilitarian style of a ship's log. In reality they were distracted letters, intended to keep the coals alive without putting her hand in the fire, while Florentino Ariza burned himself alive in every line.Collection: Reality
The truth is that the first changes are so slow they pass almost unnoticed, and you go on seeing yourself as you always were, from the inside, but others observe you from the outside.Collection: Goes On
He would wake for no reason in the middle of the night, and the memory of the self-absorbed love was revealed to him for what it was: a pitfall of happiness that he despised and desired at the same time, but from which it was impossible to escape.Collection: Memories
and the two of them loved each other for a long time in silence without making love again.Collection: Two
Love is not a condition of the spirit but a sign of the zodiac.Collection: Love Is
She was a ghost in a strange house that overnight had become immense and solitary and through which she wandered without purpose, asking herself in anguish which one of them was deader: the man who had died or the woman he had left behind.Collection: Men
It had to teach her to think of love as a state of grace: not the means to anything but the alpha and omega, an end it itself.Collection: Romantic
For a week I did not take off my mechanic's coverall day or night I did not bathe or shave or brush my teeth because love taught me too late that you groom yourself for someone you dress and perfume yourself for someone and I'd never had anyone to do that for.Collection: Night
Everything that belonged to her husband made her weep again: his tasseled slippers, his pajamas under the pillow, the space of his absence in the dressing table mirror, his own odor on her skin. A vague thought made her shudder: "The people one loves should take all their things with them when they die.Collection: Husband
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.Collection: Months
Then he made one last effort to search in his heart for the place where his affection had rotted away, and he could not find it.Collection: Heart
There is no greater glory than to die for love.Collection: Romantic
Carmelia Montiel, a twenty-year-old virgin, had just bathed in orange-blossom water and was strewing rosemary leaves on Pilar Ternera's bed when the shot rang out. Aureliano José had been destined to find with her the happiness that Amaranta had denied him, to have seven children, and to die in her arms of old age, but the bullet that entered his back and shattered his chest had been directed by a wrong interpretation of the cards.Collection: Children
but he only found her in the image that saturated his private and terrible solitude.Collection: Solitude
He recognized her despite the uproar, through his tears of unrepeatable sorrow at dying without her, and he looked at her for the last and final time with eyes more luminous, more grief-stricken, more grateful than she had ever seen them in half a century of a shared life, and he managed to say to her with his last breath: “Only God knows how much I loved youCollection: Grief
Just imagine, a cow on the balcony of the nation, what an awful thing, what a shitty country.Collection: Country
As a writer I'm merely a journalist who has learned to write better than others.Collection: Writing
The only difference today between Liberals and Conservatives is that the Liberals go to mass at five o'clock and the Conservatives at eight.Collection: Eight
Most critics don't realize that a novel like One Hundred Years of Solitude is a bit of a joke, full of signals to close friends; and so, with some pre-ordained right to pontificate they take on the responsibility of decoding the book and risk making terrible fools of themselves.Collection: Book
It was a meditation on life, love, old age, death: ideas that had often fluttered around her head like nocturnal birds but dissolved into a trickle of feathers when she tried to catch hold of them.Collection: Love Life
Let me stay here," he said. "There was soap.Collection: Soap
and it was always without pretensions of loving or being loved although always in the hope of finding something that resembled love but without the problems of love.Collection: Problem
The people one loves should take all their things with them when they die.Collection: People
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)Collection: Eye
Amputees suffer pains, cramps, itches in the leg that is no longer there. That is how she felt without him, feeling his presence where he no longer was.Collection: Pain
She would say, "Someone should invent something to do with things you cannot use anymore but that you still cannot throw out.Collection: Use
Music is important for one's health.Collection: Important
Together they had overcome the daily incomprehension, the instantaneous hatred, the reciprocal nastiness, and fabulous flashes of glory in the conjugal conspiracy. It was time when they both loved each other best, without hurry or excess, when both were most conscious of and grateful for their incredible victories over adversity. Life would still present them with other moral trials, of course, but that no longer mattered: they were on the other shore.Collection: Grateful