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“The problem in public life is learning to overcome terror; the problem in married life is learning to overcome boredom.”

Gabriel García Márquez book Love in the Time of Cholera

Source: Love in the Time of Cholera

“A person does not belong to a place until there is someone dead under the ground.”

Gabriel García Márquez book One Hundred Years of Solitude

Source: One Hundred Years of Solitude

“As I kissed her the heat of her body increased, and it exhaled a wild, untamed fragrance.”

Gabriel García Márquez book Memories of My Melancholy Whores

Source: Memories of My Melancholy Whores

“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.”

Gabriel García Márquez

“jealousy knows more than truth does.”

Gabriel García Márquez

“They looked like two children," she told me. And that thought frightened her, because she'd always felt that only children are capable of everything.”

Gabriel García Márquez book Chronicle of a Death Foretold

Source: Chronicle of a Death Foretold

“I always had understood that dying of love was mere poetic license.”

Gabriel García Márquez book Memories of My Melancholy Whores

Source: Memories of My Melancholy Whores

“Today, when I saw you, I realized that what is between us is nothing more than an illusion.”

Gabriel García Márquez book Love in the Time of Cholera

Source: Love in the Time of Cholera

“Tell him,' the colonel said, smiling, 'that a person doesn’t die when he should but when he can.”

Gabriel García Márquez book One Hundred Years of Solitude

Variant: A person doesn't die when he should but when he can.
Source: One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967), p. 241, said by Colonel Aureliano Buendía

“Fermina, he said, I have waited for this opportunity for more than half a century, to repeat to you once again my vow of eternal fidelity and everlasting love.”

Gabriel García Márquez book Love in the Time of Cholera

Source: Love in the Time of Cholera

“The rain would not have bothered Fernanda, after all, her whole life had been spent as if it were raining.”

Gabriel García Márquez book One Hundred Years of Solitude

Source: One Hundred Years of Solitude

“He was healthier than the rest of us, but when you listened with the stethoscope you could hear the tears bubbling inside his heart.”

Gabriel García Márquez book Chronicle of a Death Foretold

Source: Chronicle of a Death Foretold

“How strange women are.”

Gabriel García Márquez book Love in the Time of Cholera

Source: Love in the Time of Cholera

“One never quite stops believing, some doubt remains forever".”

Gabriel García Márquez book Of Love and Other Demons

Source: Of Love and Other Demons

“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.”

Gabriel García Márquez book Love in the Time of Cholera

Source: Love in the Time of Cholera

“Ah, me, if this is love, then how it torments.”

Gabriel García Márquez book Memories of My Melancholy Whores

Source: Memories of My Melancholy Whores

“It was a lone voice in the middle of the ocean, but it was heard at great depth and great distance.”

Gabriel García Márquez book Love in the Time of Cholera

Source: Love in the Time of Cholera

“… the invincible power that has moved the world is unrequited, not happy love”

Gabriel García Márquez book Memories of My Melancholy Whores

Variant: I became aware that the invincible power that has moved the world is unrequited, not happy, love.
Source: Memories of My Melancholy Whores