Love does not die, when someone gets old, people get old, because they can not love anymore.
Gabriel Garcia MarquezHe really had been through death, but he had returned because he could not bear the solitude.
Gabriel Garcia MarquezA short time later, when the carpenter was taking measurements for the coffin, through the window they saw a light rain of tiny yellow flowers falling. They fell on the town all through the night in a silent storm, and they covered the roofs and blocked the doors and smothered the animals who slept outdoors. So many flowers fell from the sky that in the morning the streets were carpeted with a compact cushion and they had to clear them away with shovels and rakes so that the funeral procession could pass by.
Gabriel Garcia MarquezShe would say, "Someone should invent something to do with things you cannot use anymore but that you still cannot throw out.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez...and the cries of the birds and the uproar of the monkeys became more and more remote, and the world became eternally sad. The men on the expedition felt overwhelmed by their most ancient memories in that paradise of dampness and silence, going back to before original sin, as their boots sank into pools of steaming oil and their machetes destroyed bloody lilies and golden salamanders.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez