The secret of a good old age is simply an honorable pact with solitude.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZThe secret of a good old age is simply an honorable pact with solitude.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZNo matter what, nobody can take away the dances you’ve already had.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZWhat is essential, therefore, is not that you no longer believe, but that God continues to believe in you.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZShe discovered with great delight that one does not love one’s children just because they are one’s children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZThey enjoyed the miracle of loving each other as much at the table as in bed, and they grew to be so happy that even when they were two worn-out old people they kept on blooming like children and playing together like dogs.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZFiction was invented the day Jonas arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZIf you love something – let go. If it is yours – it will come back. I love you not because of who you are, but for who I am when I’m with you.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZA man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZWe’ll grow old waiting.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZAlways tell what you feel. Do what you think.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZIt is not that the girl is unfit for everything, it is that she is not of this world.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZThe more transparent the writing, the more visible the poetry.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZBut he could not renounce his infinite capacity for illusion at the very moment he needed it most… he saw fireflies where there were none.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZIt is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZThings have a life of their own, the gypsy proclaimed with a harsh accent. “It’s simply a matter of waking up their souls.”
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZNobody is worth crying for, and those that are worth it will not make you cry.
GABRIEL GARCíA MáRQUEZ