This was when I heard that the first symptom of old age is when you begin to resemble your father. Gabriel Garcia Marquez More Quotes by Gabriel Garcia Marquez More Quotes From Gabriel Garcia Marquez She felt so old, so worn out, so far away from the best moments of her life that she even yearned for those that she remembered as the worst… Her heart of compressed ash, which had resisted the most telling blows of daily reality without strain, fell apart with the first waves of nostalgia. The need to feel sad was becoming a vice as the years eroded her. She became human in her solitude. Gabriel Garcia Marquez blowheartreality All my life, I've been frightened at the moment I sit down to write. Gabriel Garcia Marquez frightenedmomentswriting It is life, more than death, that has no limits. Gabriel Garcia Marquez limits No, not rich. I am a poor man with money, which is not the same thing. Gabriel Garcia Marquez moneyliteraturemen Love does not die, when someone gets old, people get old, because they can not love anymore. Gabriel Garcia Marquez can-notdoepeople Don't open that door," she said. "The hallway is full of difficult dreams." And I asked her: "How do you know?" And she told me: "Because I was there a moment ago and I had to come back when I discovered I was sleeping on my heart. Gabriel Garcia Marquez dreamsleepheart This was when she asked him whether it was true that love conquered all, as the songs said. 'It is true', he replied, 'but you would do well not to believe it. Gabriel Garcia Marquez saidsongbelieve Nobody is worth crying for, and those that are worth it will not make you cry. Gabriel Garcia Marquez make-you-crycrylove He pleaded so much that he lost his voice. His bones began to fill with words. Gabriel Garcia Marquez bonesvoicelost But 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 Garcia Marquez fireflysawsinfinite But that afternoon he asked himself, with his infinite capacity for illusion, if such pitiless indifference might not be a subterfuge for hiding the torments of love. Gabriel Garcia Marquez unrequited-loveheartbreakingmemorable If men gave birth, they'd be less inconsiderate. Gabriel Garcia Marquez inconsideratebirthmen This soup tastes like windows Gabriel Garcia Marquez souptastewindow To him she seemed so beautiful, so seductive, so different from ordinary people, that he could not understand why no one was as disturbed as he by the clicking of her heels on the paving stones, why no one else's heart was wild with the breeze stirred by the sighs of her veils, why everyone did not go mad with the movements of her braid, the flight of her hands, the gold of her laughter. He had not missed a single one of her gestures, not one of the indications of her character, but he did not dare approach her for fear of destroying the spell. Gabriel Garcia Marquez beautifullovelife Humanity, like armies in the field, advances at the speed of the slowest. Gabriel Garcia Marquez armyfieldshumanity 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 Garcia Marquez womenwallsex ...they 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 Garcia Marquez dogtwochildren The truth is I'm getting old, I said. We already are old, she said with a sigh. What happens is that you don't feel it on the inside, but from the outside everybody can see it. Gabriel Garcia Marquez sightruth-issaid opened the door a crack wide enough for the entire world to pass through . Gabriel Garcia Marquez cracksdoorsworld She likes to try everything, out of curiosity, but she'll be sorry if she isn't guided by her heart. Gabriel Garcia Marquez curiositysorryheart
