What worries me is that out of so much hatred for the military, out of fighting them so much and thinking about them so much, you've ended up as bad as they are. And no ideal in life is worth that much baseness.

— Gabriel García Márquez

When I stand and contemplate my fate and see the path along which you have led me, what's the rest of it?

— Gabriel García Márquez

When I wake up," he said, "remind me that I'm going to marry her.

— Gabriel García Márquez

Wherever they might be they always remember that the past was a lie, that memory has no return, that every spring gone by could never be recovered, and that the wildest and most tenacious love was an ephemeral truth in the end.

— Gabriel García Márquez

Wisdom comes to us when it can no longer do any good.

— Gabriel García Márquez

Without intending to, without even knowing it, he demonstrated with his life that his father had been right when he repeated until his dying day that there was no one with more common sense, no stone cutter more obstinate, no manager so lucid or dangerous, than a poet.

— Gabriel García Márquez

You can't come in, colonel," she told him. "You may be in command of your war, but I'm in command of my house.

— Gabriel García Márquez

You can't eat hope,' the woman said. You can't eat it, but it sustains you,' the colonel replied.

— Gabriel García Márquez

...you'll see, he said, they'll go back to dividing everything up among the priests, the gringos and the rich, and nothing for the poor, naturally, because they've always been so fucked up that the day that shit is worth money, poor people will be born without an asshole...

— Gabriel García Márquez

You people have a religion of death that fills you with the joy and courage to confront it... I do not. I believe the only essential thing is to be alive.- Abrenucio

— Gabriel García Márquez