Gabriel Garcia Marquez
...human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but...life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.
Gabriel Garcia MarquezHe who awaits much can expect little.
Gabriel Garcia MarquezI don't believe in God, but I'm afraid of Him.
Gabriel Garcia MarquezBetween 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 Garcia MarquezWhat matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.
Gabriel Garcia MarquezFiction was invented the day Jonas arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale.
Gabriel Garcia MarquezIf God hadn't rested on Sunday, He would have had time to finish the world.
Gabriel Garcia MarquezShe discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.
Gabriel Garcia MarquezIt is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.
Gabriel Garcia MarquezAlways remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability.
Gabriel Garcia MarquezThe interpretation of our reality through patterns not our own, serves only to make us ever more unknown, ever less free, ever more solitary.
Gabriel Garcia MarquezA man knows he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.
Gabriel Garcia MarquezThe problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.
Gabriel Garcia MarquezUltimately, literature is nothing but carpentry. With both you are working with reality, a material just as hard as wood.
Gabriel Garcia MarquezThe heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good; and thanks to this artifice we manage to endure the burdens of the past.
Gabriel Garcia MarquezNobody deserves your tears, but whoever deserves them will not make you cry.
Gabriel Garcia MarquezAn early-rising man is a good spouse but a bad husband.
Gabriel Garcia MarquezLife is not what one lived, but rather what one remembers, and how it is remembered to tell the tale.
Gabriel Garcia MarquezSex is one's consolation when love is not enough
Gabriel Garcia MarquezThe heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good.
Gabriel Garcia MarquezA person doesn't die when he should but when he can.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez...they no longer felt like newlyweds, and even less like belated lovers. It was as if they had lept over the arduous calvary of conjugal life and gone straight to the heart of love. They were together in silence like an old married couple wary of life, beyond the pitfalls of passion, beyond the brutal mockery of hope and the phantoms of disillusion: beyond love. 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.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez