Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.”

“[A mother] discovers with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.”

“While a person does not give up on sex, sex does not give up on the person.”

“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.”

“Age has no reality except in the physical world. The essence of a human being is resistant to the passage of time. Our inner lives are eternal, which is to say that our spirits remain as you...”

“Gaston was not only a fierce lover, with endless wisdom and imagination, but he was also, perhaps, the first man in the history of the species who had made an emergency landing and had come...”

“It was as if they had leapt over the arduous cavalry of conjugal life and gone straight to the heart of love. They were together in silence like an old married couple wary of life, beyond th...”

“He recognized her despite the uproar, through his tears of unrepeatable sorrow at dying without her, and he looked at her for the last and final time with eyes more luminous, more grief-stri...”

“Never stop smiling not even when you're sad, someone might fall in love with your smile.”

“That casual glance was the beginning of a cataclysm of love that had still not ended half a century later.”

“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.”

“She nailed it to the wall with her well-aimed dart, like a butterfly with no will whose sentence has always been written.”

“Un buen escritor se aprecia mejor por lo que rompe que por lo que publica.”

“The truth is that I know very few novelists who have been satisfied with the adaptation of their books for the screen.”

“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...”

“Faulkner is a writer who has had much to do with my soul, but Hemingway is the one who had the most to do with my craft - not simply for his books, but for his astounding knowledge of the as...”

“He who awaits much can expect little.”

“Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry. With both you are working with reality, a material just as hard as wood.”

“People spend a lifetime thinking about how they would really like to live. I asked my friends and no one seems to know very clearly. To me it's very clear now. I wish my life could have been...”

“I must try and break through the cliches about Latin America. Superpowers and other outsiders have fought over us for centuries in ways that have nothing to do with our problems. In reality...”