Gabriel García Márquez

“Always tell what you feel. Do what you think...”

“Fiction was invented the day Jonah arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale..”

“It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.”

“I became aware that the invincible power that has moved the world is unrequited, not happy, love.”

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

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

“and realized that death was not only a permanent probability, as he had always believed, but an immediate reality.”

“Eran gentes de vidas lentas, a las cuales no se les veía volverse viejas, ni enfermarse ni morir, sino que iban desvaneciéndose poco a poco en su tiempo, volviéndose recuerdos, brumas de otr...”

“The ferocity of Santiago Nasar's fate, which had collected twenty years of happiness from him not only with his death but also with the dismemberment of his body and its dispersion and exter...”

“One could be happy not only without love, but despite it.”

“Madly in love after so many years of sterile complicity, they enjoyed the miracle of loving each other as much at the table as in bed, and they grew to be so happy that even when they were t...”

“Disbelief is more resistant than faith because it is sustained by the senses.”

“Both described at the same time how it was always March there and always Monday, and then they understood that José Arcadio Buendía was not as crazy as the family said, but that he was the o...”

“When something moves you can tell that time has passed. Not till then. Until something moves time is eternal ... That's why time doesn't pass for the hanged man: because even if the child's...”

“One had to live a long time to know a man's true nature.”