01c. 1970 ADThere are some corrupt Christians who do their business with female donkeys.Gabriel García Márquez / quote ↗
02c. 1970 ADHe always believed he loved his daughter, but the fear of rabies obliged the Marquis to admit to himself that this was a lie for the sake of convenience. Bernarda, on the other hand, did not even ask herself the question, for she knew very well she did not love the girl and the girl did not love her, and both things seemed fitting. A good part of the hatred each of them felt for Sierva Maria was caused by the other's qualities in her.Gabriel García Márquez / quote ↗
03c. 1970 ADShe asked him to come and see her that night. He agreed, in order to get away, knowing that he was incapable of going. But that night, in his burning bed, he understood that he had to go see her, even if he were not capable. He got dressed by feel, listening in the dark to his brother's calm breathing, the dry cough of his father in the next room, the asthma of the hens in the courtyard, the buzz of the mosquitoes, the beating of his heart, and the inordinate bustle of a world that he had not noticed until then, and he went out in the sleeping street.Gabriel García Márquez / quote ↗
04c. 1970 ADJosè Arcadio felt himself lifted up into the air toward a state of seraphic inspiration, where his heart burst forth with an outpouring of tender obscenities that entered the girl through her ears and came out of her mouth translated into her language.Gabriel García Márquez / quote ↗
05c. 1970 ADNigromanta took him to her room, which was lighted with false candlesticks, to her folding cot with the bedding stained from bad loves, and to her body of a wild dog, hardened and without a soul, which prepared itsself to dismiss him as if he were a frightened child, and suddenly it found a man whose tremendous power demanded a movement of seismic readjustment from her insides.Gabriel García Márquez / quote ↗
06c. 1970 ADWe men are the slaves of prejudice,' he had once said to her. 'But when a woman decides to sleep with a man, there is no wall she will not scale, no fortress she will not destroy, no moral consideration she will not ignore at its very root: there is no God worth worrying about.Gabriel García Márquez / quote ↗
07c. 1970 ADnothing one does in bed is immoral if it helps perpetuate loveGabriel García Márquez / quote ↗
08c. 1970 ADThe Widow Nazaret never missed her occasional appointments with Florentino Ariza, not even during her busiest times, and it was always without pretensions of loving or being loved, although always in the hope of finding something that resembled love, but without the problems of love.Gabriel García Márquez / quote ↗
09c. 1970 ADWe men are the miserable slaves of prejudice. But when a woman decides to sleep with a man, there is no wall she will not scale, no fortress she will not destroy, no moral consideration she will not ignore at its very root: there is no God worth worrying about.Gabriel García Márquez / quote ↗
10c. 1970 ADCeasing to believe caused a permanent scar in the place where one's faith had been, making it impossible to forget.Gabriel García Márquez / quote ↗
11c. 1970 ADIn the parlor was a huge camera on wheels like the ones used in public parks, and the backdrop of a marine twilight, painted with homemade paints, and the walls papered with pictures of children at memorable moments: the first Communion, the bunny costume, the happy birthday. Year after year, during contemplative pauses on afternoons of chess, Dr. Urbino had seen the gradual covering over of the walls, and he had often thought with a shudder of sorrow that in the gallery of casual portraits lay the germ of the future of the city, governed and corrupted by those unknown children, where note even the ashes of his glory would remain.Gabriel García Márquez / quote ↗
12c. 1970 ADBut the lucidity of her old age allowed her to see, and she said so many times, that the cries of children in their mothers' wombs are not announcements of ventriloquism or a faculty for prophecy but an unmistakable sign of an incapacity for love.Gabriel García Márquez / quote ↗
13c. 1970 ADI don't have to say so because people can see it from leagues away. I am ugly, shy and anachronistic, but by dint of not wanting to be those things I have pretended to be just the opposite.Gabriel García Márquez / quote ↗
14c. 1970 ADShe reminded him that the weak will never enter the kingdom of love, which is a harsh and ungenerous kingdom,and that women give themselves only to men of resolute spirit, who provide them with the security they need in order to face life.Gabriel García Márquez / quote ↗
15c. 1970 ADCarmelia Montiel, a twenty-year-old virgin, had just bathed in orange-blossom water and was strewing rosemary leaves on Pilar Ternera's bed when the shot rang out. Aureliano José had been destined to find with her the happiness that Amaranta had denied him, to have seven children, and to die in her arms of old age, but the bullet that entered his back and shattered his chest had been directed by a wrong interpretation of the cards.Gabriel García Márquez / quote ↗
17c. 1970 AD...her own experience was beginning to tell her that an alert old age can be more keen than the cards.Gabriel García Márquez / quote ↗
18c. 1970 ADTake care,' said Delaura. 'Sometimes we attribute certain things we do not understand to the demon, not thinking they may be things of God that we do not understand.''Saint Thomas said it, and I will be guided by him,' said the Abbess: '"One must not believe demons even when they speak the truth.Gabriel García Márquez / quote ↗
19c. 1970 ADThe only consolation, even for someone like him who had been a good man in bed, was sexual peace: the slow, merciful extinction of his venereal appetite. At eighty-one years of age he had enough lucidity to realize that he was attached to this world by a few slender threads that could break painlessly with a simple change in position while he slept, and if he did all he could to keep those threads intact, it was because of his terror of not finding God in the darkness of death.Gabriel García Márquez / quote ↗
20c. 1970 ADI must warn you that the books I like are not necessarily the ones I think are the best. I like them for various reasons not always easy to explain.Gabriel García Márquez / quote ↗
21c. 1970 ADIt had never occurred to him until then to think that literature was the best plaything that had ever been invented to make fun of people...Gabriel García Márquez / quote ↗
22c. 1970 ADHer movements were so stealthy that she seemed to be an invisible creature. Frightened by her strange nature, her mother had hung a cowbell around the girl's wrist so she would not lose track of her in the shadows of the house.Gabriel García Márquez / quote ↗
23c. 1970 ADliterature was the best plaything that had ever been invented to make fun of people.Gabriel García Márquez / quote ↗
24c. 1970 ADEverything that goes into my mouth seems to make me fat, everything that comes out of my mouth embarrasses me.Gabriel García Márquez / quote ↗
