“What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.”
― Gabriel García Márquez
“There is always something left to love.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude
"No matter what, nobody can take away the dances you’ve already had."
— Memories of My Melancholy Whores
“It was inevitable: the scent of bitter almonds always reminded him of the fate of unrequited love.”
― Gabriel García Márquez
“Then he made one last effort to search in his heart for the place where his affection had rotted away, and he could not find it.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude
“Amputees suffer pains, cramps, itches in the leg that is no longer there. That is how she felt without him, feeling his presence where he no longer was.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera
“Be calm. God awaits you at the door.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera
“Only God knows how much I love you.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera
“You can't eat hope,' the woman said.
You can't eat it, but it sustains you,' the colonel replied.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, El coronel no tiene quien le escriba
“Never stop smiling not even when you're sad, someone might fall in love with your smile.”
