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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 2630408 | Gabito isn't deceiving anyone," she said with an innocent smile, "but sometimes it happens that even God needs to make weeks that are two years long." | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| 070200a | the only souvenir she kept of Aureliano Segundo was a pair of patent leather boots, which, according to what he himself had said, were the ones he wanted to wear in his coffin. She kept them wrapped in cloth in the bottom of a trunk and made ready to feed on memories, waiting without despair. "He has to come sooner or later," she told herself, "even if it's just to put on those boots." | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| da8c88a | Nothing resembles a person as much as the way he dies, and no death could resemble the man he was thinking about less than this one. But it was he, although it seemed absurd: the oldest and best qualified doctor in the city, and one of its illustrious men for many other meritorious reasons, had died of a broken spine, at the age of eighty-one, when he fell from the branch of a mango tree as he tried to catch a parrot. | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| 2dee9e8 | Elle lui rappela que les faibles jamais n'entreraient au royaume de l'amour, qui est un royaume inclement et mesquin, et que les femmes ne se donnent qu'aux hommes de caractere car ils leur communiquent la securite dont elles ont tant besoin pour affronter la vie. | sécurité homme femme | Gabriel García Márquez | |
| c4e35c7 | Il etait encore trop jeune pour savoir que la memoire du coeur efface les mauvais souvenirs et embellit les bons, et que c'est grace a cet artifice que l'on parvient a accepter le passe. | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| 8e62df5 | Fece allora un ultimo sforzo per cercare nel suo cuore il luogo dove gli si erano putrefatti gli affetti, e non pote trovarlo. | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| 87a8e72 | 'n lHb ystTy` 'n yf`l kl shy | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| d690e42 | No old man forgets where he has hidden his treasure. | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| fafe3b7 | Den ten xanade oute kan tukhaia, s' ole ten upoloipe zoe tou kai mono o Theos xerei poso pono tou kostise aute e eroike apophase kai posa pikra dakrua ekhuse, kleidomenos sto mpanio, gia na epizesei meta ten prosopike tou katastrophe. [...] Ten idia nukhta tes apopoieses, eno xentunotan gia na koimethei, epanelabe ste Phermina Dasa ten pikre litaneia apo tis proines tou aupnies, tous xaphnikous sphakhtes, to klama pou tou erkhotan to sourou.. | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| a922369 |
Una tarde, cuando todos dormian la siesta, no resisito mas y fue a su dormitorio. Lo encontro en calzoncillos, despierto, tendido en la hamaca que habia colgadio de de los horcones con cables de amarrar barcos. La impresiono tanto su enorme desnudez tarabiscoteada que sintio el impulso de retroceder. < |
Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| 3573f89 | El dia que lo iban a matar, Santiago Nasar se levanto a las 5.30 de la manana para esperar el buque en que llegaba el obispo. | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| 446fca6 | and the cries of the birds and the uproar of the monkeys became more and more remote, and the world became eternally sad. The men on the expedition felt overwhelmed by their most ancient memories in that paradise of dampness and silence, going back to before original sin, as their boots sank into pools of steaming oil and their machetes destroyed bloody lilies and golden salamanders. | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| e83a1a6 | Science has eliminated distance," Melquiades proclaimed. "In a short time, man will be able to see what is happening in any place in the world without leaving his own house." | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| daee1cd | I nee to reason for a plague, ... As far as I know no comets or eclipses have been forecast, and our sins are not great enough for God to be concerned with us. | punishment sarcasm | Gabriel García Márquez | |
| 387d2dd | Creame que no soy ateo, coronel. Lo que sucede es que me desconcierta tanto pensar que Dios existe, como pensar que no existe. Entonces prefiero no pensar en eso. | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| 25b6932 | I was ignorant in the art of seduction and had always chosen my brides for a night at random, more for their price than their charms, and 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. That night I discovered the improbable pleasure of contemplating the body of a sleeping woman without the urgencies of desire or the obstacles of modesty. | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| d7d7d8e | 'yh ljbn. l'sw' kn qd nqD~ | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| 785ca73 | He was a perfect husband: he never picked up anything from the floor, or turned out a light, or closed a door. | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| 42d52bb | he considered respect for one's given word as a wealth that should not be squandered. | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| f133f79 | Era como estar despierto dos veces". Esa frase me hizo pensar que lo mas insoportable para ellos en el calabozo debio haber sido la lucidez." | fatality pablo-vicario | Gabriel García Márquez | |
| 6a555a9 | He would say: "You treat me as if I were just anybody." She would roar with the laughter of a free female and say: "Not at all: as if you were nobody." | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| 8e79cb6 | Fijate que simple es -le dijo a Amaranta-. Dice que se esta muriendo por mi, como si yo fuera un colico miserere | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| 51a4094 | All that was needed was shrewd questioning, first of the patient and then of his mother, to conclude once again that the symptoms of love were the same as those of cholera. | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| afbbd89 | We have to bring in the railroad,' he said. That was the first time the word had ever been heard in Macondo. Looking at the sketch that Aureliano Triste drew on the table and that was a direct descendant of the plans that Jose Arcadio Buendia had illustrated his project for solar warfare, Ursula confirmed her impression that time was going in a circle. | magic-realism | Gabriel García Márquez | |
| 5897860 | But underneath it all she could not conceive that the boy the gypsies took away was the same lout who would eat half a suckling pig for lunch and whose flatulence withered flowers. | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| 31c5a32 | A short time later, when the carpenter was taking measurements for the coffin, through the window they saw a light rain of tiny yellow flowers falling. The fell on the town all through the night in a silent storm, and they covered the roofs and blocked the doors and smothered the animals who slept outdoors. So many flowers fell from the sky that in the morning the streets were carpeted with a compact cushion and they had to clear them away .. | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| 6d91ce4 | Bad luck doesn't have any chinks in it. I was born a son of a bitch and I'm going to die a son of a bitch. - Captain Roque Carnicero | war latin-america gabriel-garcía-márquez political-fiction historical-fiction | Gabriel García Márquez | |
| a337e6b | he could not understand how people arrived at the extreme of waging war over things that could not be touched with the hand | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| 294762d | The Marquis dusted off the Italian theorbo. He restrung it, tuned it with a perseverance that could be understood only as love, and once again accompanied the songs of the past, sung with the good voice and bad ear that neither years nor troubled memories had changed. This was when she asked him whether it was true that love conquered all, as the songs said. "It is true," he replied, "but you would do well not to believe it." | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| f8d9a78 | El era consciente de que no la amaba. Se habia casado porque le gustaba su altivez, su seriedad, su fuerza, y tambien por una pizca de vanidad suya, pero mientras ella lo besaba por primera vez, estaba seguro que no habria ningun obstaculo para inventar un buen amor. | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| f8fd81b | 'n l'db 'fDl Hyl@ khtr`h lnsn llskhry@ mn lakhryn | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| acdf685 | The uncertainty of the future made them turn their hearts toward the past. They saw themselves in the lost paradise of the deluge, splashing in the puddles in the courtyard, killing lizards to hang on Ursula, pretending that they were going to bury her alive, and those memories revealed to them the truth that they had been happy together ever since they had had memory. | love soulmates memory nostalgia | Gabriel García Márquez | |
| a96c797 | No puede llover toda la vida.>> | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| 71c9767 | La casa se lleno de amor. Aureliano lo expreso en versos que no tenian principio ni fin. Los escribia en los asperos pergaminos que le regalaba Melquiades, en las paredes del bano, en la piel de sus brazos, y en todos aparecia Remedios transfigurada: Remedios en el aire soporifero de las dos de la tarde, Remedios en la callada respiracion de las rosas, Remedios en la clepsidra secreta de las polillas, Remedios en el vapor del pan al amanece.. | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| ec4c36b | Otra cosa bien distinta habria sido la vida para ambos, de haber sabido a tiempo que era mas facil sortear las grandes catastrofes matrimoniales que las miserias minusculas de cada dia. Pero si algo habian aprendido juntos era que la sabiduria nos llega cuando ya no sirve para nada. | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| 6dd64d7 | He never looked better, nor had he been loved more, not had the breeding of his animals been wilder. There was a slaughtering of so many cows, pigs and chickens for the endless parties that the ground in the courtyard turned black and muddy with so much blood. It was an eternal execution of bones and innards, a mud pit of leftovers, and they had to keep exploding dynamite bombs all the time so that the buzzards would not pluck out the guest.. | magic-realism | Gabriel García Márquez | |
| c034968 | he allowed himself to be swayed by his conviction that human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but that life obliges them them over and over again to give birth to themselves. | identity life self | Gabriel García Márquez | |
| e545bb8 | The only wars here will be civil wars, and those are like killing your own mother. | Gabriel García Márquez | ||
| b46f735 | But this was the first time someone he loved would be gone forever. He didn't like to think about the forever part. But when he did, which was often, the only place he wanted to be was home. | Kevin Henkes | ||
| 70c8920 | When I was younger, before this layoff which has nearly finished me, I hitchhiked one hundred and twenty-seven hours without stopping, without food or sleep, crossed the continent twice in six days, cooled my thumbs in both oceans and caught rides after midnight on unlighted highways, such was my skill, persuasion, rhythm. I set records and immediately cracked them; went farther, faster than any hitchhiker before or since. | Tom Robbins | ||
| ee9a7d8 | their kiss was like a paper airplane landing on the moon. | Tom Robbins | ||
| 5bab1f8 | If you could buckle your Bugs Bunny wristwatch to a ray of light, your watch would continue ticking but the hands wouldn't move. That's because at the speed of light there is no time. Time is relative to velocity. At high speeds, time is literally stretched. Since light is the ultimate in velocity, at light-speed time is stretched to its absolute and becomes static. Albert Einstein figured that one out. | Tom Robbins | ||
| 40d5362 | religion is a paramount contributor to human misery. It is not merely the opium of the masses, it is the cyanide. | Tom Robbins | ||
| ccef444 | The theater of man is not always 'amusing', but it always theater, and theater can be marveled at even when its content is somber and harsh. You're acquainted with Greek tragedy? | Tom Robbins |