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“A true friend is the one who holds your hand and touches your heart”

Gabriel García Márquez

Variant: Friend is the person that holds your hand and touches your heart!

“But when a woman decides to sleep with a man, there is no wall she will not scale, no fortress she will not destroy, no moral consideration she will not ignore at its very root: there is no God worth worrying about.”

Gabriel García Márquez book Love in the Time of Cholera

Source: Love in the Time of Cholera

“All human beings have three lives: public, private, and secret.”

Gabriel García Márquez

Source: Gabriel García Márquez: a Life

“Sex is the consolation you have when you can't have love.”

Gabriel García Márquez book Memories of My Melancholy Whores

Variant: Sex is the consolation you have when you can’t have love.
Source: Memories of My Melancholy Whores

“The only thing worse than bad health is a bad name.”

Gabriel García Márquez book Love in the Time of Cholera

Source: Love in the Time of Cholera

“Each man is master of his own death, and all that we can do when the time comes is to help him die without fear of pain.”

Gabriel García Márquez

“Life had already given him sufficient reasons for knowing that no defeat was the final one.”

Gabriel García Márquez book The General in His Labyrinth

Source: The General in His Labyrinth

“his mysterious resources had awakened in her a curiosity that was difficult to resist, but she had never imagined that curiosity was one of the many masks of love.”

Gabriel García Márquez book Love in the Time of Cholera

Source: Love in the Time of Cholera

“Perhaps this is what the stories meant when they called somebody heartsick. Your heart and your stomach and your whole insides felt empty and hollow and aching.”

Gabriel García Márquez

“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.”

Gabriel García Márquez book Love in the Time of Cholera

Source: Love in the Time of Cholera

“Tell him yes. Even if you are dying of fear, even if you are sorry later, because whatever you do, you will be sorry all the rest of your life if you say no.”

Gabriel García Márquez book Love in the Time of Cholera

Source: Love in the Time of Cholera

“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 García Márquez

“Wisdom comes to us when it can no longer do any good.”

Gabriel García Márquez book Love in the Time of Cholera

Source: Love in the Time of Cholera

“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.”

Gabriel García Márquez book One Hundred Years of Solitude

Source: One Hundred Years of Solitude

“… time was not passing… it was turning in a circle…”

Gabriel García Márquez book One Hundred Years of Solitude

Source: One Hundred Years of Solitude

“It always amuses me that the biggest praise for my work comes for the imagination, while the truth is that there's not a single line in all my work that does not have a basis in reality.”

Gabriel García Márquez

Source: The Paris Review interview (1981), p. 322
Context: It always amuses me that the biggest praise for my work comes for the imagination, while the truth is that there's not a single line in all my work that does not have a basis in reality. The problem is that Caribbean reality resembles the wildest imagination.