Don't worry," he would say, smiling. "Dying is much more difficult than one imagines.

— Gabriel García Márquez

Dr. Urban caught the parrot around the neck with a triumphant sigh: CA y est. But he released him immediately because the ladder slipped from under his feet and for an instant he was suspended in the air, and then he realized that he had died without Communion, without time to repent of anything or to say goodbye to anyone, at seven minutes after four on Pentecost Sunday. Fermina Data was in the kitchen tasting the soup for supper when she heard Diana Pardon's horrified shriek and the shouting of the servants and then of the entire neighborhood. She dropped the tasting spoon and tried to run despite the invincible weight of her age, screaming like a madwoman without knowing yet what had happened under the mango leaves, and her heart jumped inside her ribs when she saw her man lying on his back in the mud, dead to this life but still resisting death's final blow for one last minute so that she would have time to come to him. He recognized her despite the uproar, through his tears of unrepeatable sorrow at dying without her, and he looked for her for the last and final time with eyes more luminous, more grief-stricken, more grateful that she had ever seen them in the half century of a shared life, and he managed to say to her with his last breath:"Only God knows how much I loved you.

— Gabriel García Márquez

Dr Urban did not agree: in his opinion a Liberal president was exactly the same as a Conservative president, but not as well-dressed.

— Gabriel García Márquez

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

— Gabriel García Márquez

Each man is master of his own death and all that we can do when the time comes is to help him die without fear of pain.

— Gabriel García Márquez

Each man is master of his own death, and all that we can do when the time comes is to help him die without fear of pain.

— Gabriel García Márquez

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— Gabriel García Márquez

Everything that goes into my mouth seems to make me fat, everything that comes out of my mouth embarrasses me.

— Gabriel García Márquez

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.

— Gabriel García Márquez

Florentino Aria always forgot when he should not have that women, and Prudence PIRE more than any other, always think about the hidden meanings of questions more than about the questions themselves.

— Gabriel García Márquez