01c. 1970 ADFiction 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 / quote ↗
02c. 1970 ADIt is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.Gabriel García Márquez / quote ↗
03c. 1970 ADIt's enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment.Gabriel García Márquez / quote ↗
04c. 1970 ADI became aware that the invincible power that has moved the world is unrequited, not happy, love.Gabriel García Márquez / quote ↗
05c. 1970 ADThat casual glance was the beginning of a cataclysm of love that had still not ended half a century later.Gabriel García Márquez / quote ↗
06c. 1970 ADMy God, if I had a heart, I would write my hate on ice, and wait for the sun to show.Gabriel García Márquez / quote ↗
07c. 1970 ADIf God hadn't rested on Sunday, He would have had time to finish the world.Gabriel García Márquez / quote ↗
09c. 1970 ADIf they had learned anything together, it was that wisdom comes to us when it can no longer do any good.Gabriel García Márquez / quote ↗
11c. 1970 ADOne could be happy not only without love, but despite it.Gabriel García Márquez / quote ↗
12c. 1970 ADYou can't eat hope,' the woman said.You can't eat it, but it sustains you,' the colonel replied.Gabriel García Márquez / quote ↗
13c. 1970 ADTell him,' the colonel said, smiling, 'that a person doesn’t die when he should but when he can.Gabriel García Márquez / quote ↗
14c. 1970 ADDr. Urbino caught the parrot around the neck with a triumphant sigh: ça 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 Daza was in the kitchen tasting the soup for supper when she heard Digna Pardo'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 / quote ↗
15c. 1970 ADand realized that death was not only a permanent probability, as he had always believed, but an immediate reality.Gabriel García Márquez / quote ↗
16c. 1970 ADEach 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 / quote ↗
17c. 1970 ADThey were people whose lives were slow, who did not see themselves growing old, or falling sick, or dying, but who disappeared little by little in their own time, turning into memories, mists from other days, until they were absorbed into oblivion.Gabriel García Márquez / quote ↗
18c. 1970 ADYou 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.- AbrenucioGabriel García Márquez / quote ↗
19c. 1970 ADThe people one loves should take all their things with them when they die.Gabriel García Márquez / quote ↗
20c. 1970 ADEran gentes de vidas lentas, a las cuales no se les veía volverse viejas, ni enfermarse ni morir, sino que iban desvaneciéndose poco a poco en su tiempo, volviéndose recuerdos, brumas de otra época, hasta que los asimilaba el olvido.Gabriel García Márquez / quote ↗
21c. 1970 ADShe nailed it to the wall with her well-aimed dart, like a butterfly with no will whose sentence has always been written.Gabriel García Márquez / quote ↗
22c. 1970 ADThe ferocity of Santiago Nasar's fate, which had collected twenty years of happiness from him not only with his death but also with the dismemberment of his body and its dispersion and extermination.Gabriel García Márquez / quote ↗
23c. 1970 ADDisbelief is more resistant than faith because it is sustained by the senses.Gabriel García Márquez / quote ↗
