Gabriel Garcia Marquez Quotes

Shame has poor memory.

Thus they went on living in a reality that was slipping away, momentarily captured by words, but which would escape irremediably when they forgot the values of the written letters.

Justice limps along, but gets there all the same.

He really had been through death, but he had returned because he could not bear the solitude.

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.

Surrealism runs through the streets.

He shook my hand and said goodbye with a sentence that might have been either good advice or a threat: "Take good care of yourself.

Florentina Ariza had kept his answer ready for fifty-three years, seven months and eleven days and nights. 'Forever,' he said.

I'll never fall in love again... it's like having two souls at the same time.

It was a love of perpetual flight.

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.

Time was not passing...it was turning in a circle.

He did not dare to console her, knowing that it would have been like consoling a tiger run thru by a spear.

That's maybe the reason he does so many things so that he will not have to think .