Gabriel García Márquez: Trending quotes (page 7)

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

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

“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.”

“jealousy knows more than truth does.”

“The weak would never enter the kingdom of love.”

“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.”

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

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

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

“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.”

“My God, if I had a heart, I would write my hate on ice, and wait for the sun to show.”

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

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

“How strange women are.”

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

“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.”

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

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

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