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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 96b02fe | Here the only one who has the right to prohibit anything is the government, we live in a democracy. | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| 9183d5c | The city drowned in memories. | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| a9ca202 | w'HasWat b'nh syWad@ nfsh llmr@ l'wl~ , w'Hst b'nh murfaqa@ wmaHmiyW@ , w'n ry'tyh mmtly'tn bhw Hury@ '`d lh lTm'nyn@ wrd@ lHy@ .. | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| f3eeaf9 | It's like a firstborn son: you spend your life working for him, sacrificing everything for him, and at the moment of truth, he does just as he pleases. | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| efe952f | But if they had learnt anything together, it was that wisdom comes to us when it can no longer do any good. | wisdom | Gabriel García Márquez | |
| 9665292 | Zimata vr'khletia v'rkhu ni edna nedelia, kogato izlizakhme ot ts'rkva. V s'bota prez noshchta beshe zadushno. No dori v nedelia sutrinta nikoi ne misleshe, che mozhe da zavali. Sled liturgiiata nie, zhenite, oshche ne biakhme uspeli da otvorim chad'rite si za sl'ntse, kogato zadukha edin g'st, mrachen viat'r, zav'rtia se v shirok kr'g i pomete prakha i sukhite koravi lista na mai. Niakoi do mene reche: ,,Na voda mirishe tozi viat'r". A p'k.. | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| 5d01241 | At eighty-one years of age he had enough lucidity to realize that he was attached to this world by a few slender threads that could break painlessly with a simple change of position while he slept, and if he did all he could to keep those threads intact, it was because of his terror of not finding God in the darkness of death. | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| d7da653 | If you have to go crazy, please go crazy all by yourself!" Ursula shouted." | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| c7030c1 | Let me be, he said. Despair is the health of the damned. | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| 9e07cd4 | We men are the miserable slaves of prejudice. But when a woman decides to sleep with a man, there is no wall she will not scale, no fortress she will not destroy, no moral consideration she will not ignore at its very root: there is no God worth worrying about. | sex woman women-and-men | Gabriel García Márquez | |
| fd4d0f2 | in his opinion a Liberal president was exactly the same as a Conservative president, but not as well dressed. | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| 80cf8ad | The only certainty was that they took everything with them: money, December breezes, the bread knife, thunder at 3 in the afternoon, the scent of jasmines, love. All that remained were the dusty almond trees, the reverberating streets, the houses of wood and roofs of rusting tin with their taciturn inhabitants, devastated by memories. | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| ca78b81 | Go away," she said voicelessly. Aureliano, smiled, picked her up by the waist with both hands like a pot of begonias, and dropped her on her back on the bed. With a brutal tug he pulled off her bathrobe before she had time to resist and he loomed over an abyss of newly washed nudity whose skin color, lines of fuzz, and hidden moles had all been imagined in the shadows of the other rooms. Amaranta Ursula defended herself sincerely with the a.. | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| d8c283d | Creian ser felices, y tal vez lo eran, hasta que uno de los dos decia una palabra de mas, o daba un paso de menos, y la noche se pudria en un pleito de vandalos que desmoralizaba los mastines. | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| 4109fb6 | They entrenched themselves in their preferences, their beliefs, their prejudices, and closed ranks against everything that was different | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| a706ace | The truth is that Dr. Juvenal Urbino's suit had never been undertaken in the name of love, and it was curious, to say the least, that a militant Catholic like him would offer her only worldly goods: security, order, happiness, contiguous numbers that, once they were added together, might resemble love, almost be love. But they were not love, and these doubts increased her confusion, because she was also not convinced that love was really wh.. | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| d6eb1a4 | Kader bizleri gorunmez kilar. | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| fe0d25e | as he was combing his hair in front of the mirror...only then did he understand that a man knows when he is growing older because he begins to look like his father. | genetics resemblance | Gabriel García Márquez | |
| 7837d45 | Khose-Arkadio, po-golemiiat ot detsata, beshe nav'rshil chetirinaiset godini. Imashe chetv'rtitata glava, shchr'knalata kosa i prikhvatnichaviia kharakter na bashcha si. Makar i da noseshe s'shchiia poriv za rastene i fizicheska sila, oshche ottogava beshe ochevidno, che e lishen ot v'obrazhenie. Be zachenat i roden v m'chitelnoto p'tuvane prez planinata, predi osnovavaneto na Makondo, i roditelite mu blagodarikha na nebeto, shchom stana ia.. | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| 54bd464 | No tengo que decirlo, porque se me distingue a leguas: soy feo, timido y anacronico. | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| 0ac8a4c | The human body is not made to endure all the years that one may live | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| 921f267 | Es el demonio, padre mio", le dijo Delaura. "El mas terrible de todos." | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| 0e023ce | and yet we didn't believe it now that it was, and not because we really didn't believe it but because we no longer wanted it to be true, we had ended up not understanding what would become of us without him, what would become of our lives after him, | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| abdc55d | Someone had told the General that when a dog died it had to be replaced without delay by another just like it, and with the same name, so you could go on believing it was the same animal. He did not agree. He always wanted them to be distinctive so he could remember them all with their own identities, their yearning eyes and eager spirits, and could mourn their deaths. | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| 8eff2f8 | And nevertheless, when they watched him leave the house, this man they themselves had urged to conquer the world, then they were the ones left with the terror that he would never return. That was their life. Love, if it existed, was something separate: another life. | love marriage | Gabriel García Márquez | |
| 65e5165 | El coronel comprobo que cuarenta anos de vida comun, de hambre comun, de sufrimientos comunes, no le habian bastado para conocer a su esposa. | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| 38e780f | O coracao tem mais quartos que uma casa de putas. | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| a429686 | El mundo era tan reciente, que muchas cosas carecian de nombre, y para mencionarlas habia que senalarlas con el dedo. | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| 8d38aa4 | fear of death is the amber of happiness | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| 446468c | The ancient priest who had taken Father Angel's place and whose name no one had bothered to find out awaited God's mercy stretched out casually in a hammock, tortured by arthritis and the insomnia of doubt while the lizards and rats fought over the inheritance of the nearby church. | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| 4e79adb | There is no innocence more dangerous than the innocence of age. | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| a5e7040 | a woman who was washing clothes in the river during the hottest time of the day ran screaming down the main street in an alarming state of commotion. "It's coming," she finally explained. "Something frightful, like a kitchen dragging a village behind it." | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| 6bf6074 | lfrq lwHyd byn llybrlywn w lmHfZwn , hw 'n llybrlyyn ydhhbwn l~ qds ls`@ lthlth@ bynm ydhhb lmHfZwn l~ qds lthmn@ | سياسة | Gabriel García Márquez | |
| 1470762 | At that instant the smoking mouths of the rifles were aimed at him and letter by letter he heard the encyclicals that Mequiades had chanted and he heart the lost steps of Santa Sofia de la Piedad, a virgin, in the classroom, and in his nose he felt the same icy hardness that had drawn his attention in the nostrils of the corpse of Remedios. | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| 11f77cb | El amor se hace mas grande y noble en la calamidad. | calamidad | Gabriel García Márquez | |
| 208c4eb | La vida le habia dado muchos motivos para estar alerta, pero ninguno para estar asustado. | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| d145ceb | Nu exista pe lume leac care sa tamaduiasca ceea ce nu tamaduieste fericirea/ There is no cure in this world which heals what happiness does not heal. | healing | Gabriel García Márquez | |
| 46a54d4 | The symptoms of love are the same as those of cholera. | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| 26a5585 | The air was so damp that fish could have come in through doors and swum out the windows, floating through the atmosphere in the rooms. One morning Ursula woke up feeling that she was reaching her end in a placid swoon and she had already asked them to take her to Father Antonio Isabel, when Santa Sofia de la Piedad discovered that her back was paved with leeches. She took them off one by one, crushing them with a firebrand before they bled .. | magic-realism | Gabriel García Márquez | |
| c0263d9 | Digale --sonrio el coronel-- que uno no se muere cuando debe, sino cuando puede. | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| af16ff7 | We have still not had a death. A person does not belong to a place until there is someone dead under the ground." he said. "If I have to die for the rest of you to stay here, I will die" replied Ursula with a soft firmness." | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| 9162085 | How awful," he said, "the way time passes!" | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| 62f6228 | Because she was looking down and focusing her attention so precisely, Alice lost track of time and of herself. She wouldn't be able to put it into words, except to say she felt removed from the world. Or just at its edge. At the edge of the wild and beautiful world. She felt small, too. But part of something large. She was happy. | interconnectedness nature | Kevin Henkes | |
| 5515559 | Cowgirl Interlude (Bonanza Jellybean) She is lying on the family sofa in flannel pajamas. There is Kansas City mud on the tips and heels of her boots, boots that have yet to savor real manure. Fourteen, she knows she ought to remove her boots, yet she refuses. A Maverick rerun is on TV; she is eating beef jerky, occasionally slurping. On her upper stomach, where her pajama top has ridden up, is a small deep scar. She tells everyone, includi.. | Tom Robbins |