"Over the years they both reached the same wise conclusion by different paths: it was not possible to live together in any other way, or love in any other way, and nothing in this world was more difficult than love."
— Gabriel García Márquez
"For they had lived together long enough to know that love was always love, anytime and anyplace, but it was more solid the closer it came to death."
— Gabriel García Márquez
"It was a love of perpetual flight."
— Gabriel García Márquez
"Life is not what one lived, but what One remembers and how One remembers it in order to recount it"
— Gabriel García Márquez
"We 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
"A lie is more comfortable than doubt, more useful than love, more lasting than truth."
— Gabriel García Márquez
"She would not shed a tear, she would not waste the rest of her years simmering in the maggot broth of memory."
— Gabriel García Márquez
"...and both of them remained floating in an empty universe where the only everyday & eternal reality was love..."
— Gabriel García Márquez (One Hundred Years of Solitude)
"With her Florentino Ariza learned what he had already experienced many times without realizing it: that one can be in love with several people at the same time, feel the same sorrow with each, and not betray any of them. Alone in the midst of the crowd on the pier, he said to himself in a flash of anger: 'My heart has more rooms than a whorehouse.'"
— Gabriel García Márquez (Love in the Time of Cholera)
"The only regret I will have in dying is if it is not for love."
— Gabriel García Márquez (Love in the Time of Cholera)
"It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams."
— Gabriel García Márquez
"sex is the consolation you have when you can't have love"
— Gabriel García Márquez
"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 García Márquez (Love in the Time of Cholera)
"If I knew that today would be the last time I’d see you, I would hug you tight and pray the Lord be the keeper of your soul. If I knew that this would be the last time you pass through this door, I’d embrace you, kiss you, and call you back for one more. If I knew that this would be the last time I would hear your voice, I’d take hold of each word to be able to hear it over and over again. If I knew this is the last time I see you, I’d tell you I love you, and would not just assume foolishly you know it already."
— Gabriel García Márquez
Love in the Time of Cholera remains and will remain my favorite book of all time. Márquez captures a kind of love that is so hard to summarize because it is so thoroughly present in every word of the book and plump with every kind of emotion that to summarize it would only dissuade you from reading it yourself.
Don't see the movie. It sucked the soul out of the novel.
Source: http://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/13450.Gabriel_Garc_a_M_rquez
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