Quotes by : Gabriel García Márquez

Carmelia Montiel, a twenty-year-old virgin, had just bathed in orange-blossom water and was strewing....

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

he dared to explore her withered neck w/his fingertips…her hips w/their decaying bones, her thighs....

All that Delaura noticed, though, was the uproarious crowing of the roosters.'There are only six of them,....

Both described at the same time how it was always March there and always Monday, and then they understood....

If God hadn't rested on Sunday, He would have had time to finish the world.

During the luncheon he paid attention to no one except his own phantoms.

The wind from the Caribbean blew in the windows along with the racket made by the birds, and Fermina....

I do not believe in decent women who do not know how to play the piano.

But that afternoon he asked himself, with his infinite capacity for illusion, if such pitiless indifference....