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“This soup tastes like windows”

Gabriel García Márquez book Love in the Time of Cholera

Source: Love in the Time of Cholera

“Think of love as a state of grace not as a means to anything… but an end in itself.”

Gabriel García Márquez book Love in the Time of Cholera

Variant: It had to teach her to think of love as a state of grace: not the means to anything but the alpha and omega, an end it itself.
Source: Love in the Time of Cholera

“we had made love without love, half-dressed most of the time and always in the dark so we could imagine ourselves as better than we were.”

Gabriel García Márquez

“The year I turned ninety, I wanted to give myself the gift of a night of wild love with an adolescent virgin.”

Gabriel García Márquez

Source: Memoria de mis putas tristes

“Fernanda, on the other hand, looked for it in vain along the paths of her everyday itinerary without knowing that the search for lost things is hindered by routine habits and that is why it is so difficult to find them.”

Gabriel García Márquez book One Hundred Years of Solitude

Source: One Hundred Years of Solitude

“Why do you insist on talking about what does not exist?”

Gabriel García Márquez book Love in the Time of Cholera

Source: Love in the Time of Cholera

“opened the door a crack wide enough for the entire world to pass through.”

Gabriel García Márquez book Love in the Time of Cholera

Source: Love in the Time of Cholera

“It is incredible how one can be happy for so many years in the midst of so many squabbles, so many problems, damn it, and not really know if it was love or not.”

Gabriel García Márquez book Love in the Time of Cholera

Source: Love in the Time of Cholera

“She let him finish, scratching his head with the tips of her fingers, and without his having revealed that he was weeping from love, she recognized immediately the oldest sobs in the history of man.”

Gabriel García Márquez book One Hundred Years of Solitude

Source: Cem Anos de Solidão

“More than mother and son, they were accomplices in solitude.”

Gabriel García Márquez book One Hundred Years of Solitude

Source: One Hundred Years of Solitude

“Why were you so old when we met? I answered with the truth: Age isn't how old you are but how old you feel.”

Gabriel García Márquez

“He said that love was an emotion contra natura that condemned two strangers to a base and unhealthy dependence, and the more intense it was, the more ephemeral.”

Gabriel García Márquez book Of Love and Other Demons

Source: Of Love and Other Demons

“Don't open that door," she said. "The hallway is full of difficult dreams." And I asked her: "How do you know?" And she told me: "Because I was there a moment ago and I had to come back when I discovered I was sleeping on my heart.”

Gabriel García Márquez book Olhos de Cão Azul

Source: Ojos de perro azul

“But he could not renounce his infinite capacity for illusion at the very moment he needed it most… he saw fireflies where there were none.”

Gabriel García Márquez book The General in His Labyrinth

Source: The General in His Labyrinth

“The children would remember for the rest of their lives the august solemnity with which their father, devastated by his prolonged vigil and by the wraith of his imagination, revealed his discovery to them: 'The world is round, like an orange.”

Gabriel García Márquez

“It was then that she realized that the yellow butterflies preceded the appearances of Mauricio Babilonia.”

Gabriel García Márquez

“Old people, with other old people, are not so old.”

Gabriel García Márquez book Love in the Time of Cholera

Source: Love in the Time of Cholera

“but he only found her in the image that saturated his private and terrible solitude.”

Gabriel García Márquez book One Hundred Years of Solitude

Source: One Hundred Years of Solitude

“In her final years she would still recall the trip that, with the perverse lucidity of nostalgia, became more and more recent in her memory.”

Gabriel García Márquez book Love in the Time of Cholera

Source: Love in the Time of Cholera