But when they changed their plans time and time again, the dates became confused, the periods were mislaid, and one day seemed so much like another that one could not feel them pass.

— Gabriel García Márquez

Carmela Montiel, a twenty-year-old virgin, had just bathed in orange-blossom water and was strewing rosemary leaves on Polar Tern era's bed when the shot rang out. Aurelia no José had been destined to find with her the happiness that Amaranth 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

Ceasing to believe caused a permanent scar in the place where one's faith had been, making it impossible to forget.

— Gabriel García Márquez

Children inherit their parents' madness.

— Gabriel García Márquez

Disbelief is more resistant than faith because it is sustained by the senses.

— Gabriel García Márquez

Dogs were not loyal but servile, that cats were opportunists and traitors,

— Gabriel García Márquez

Do not allow me to forget you

— Gabriel García Márquez

Don't let yourself die without knowing the wonder of fucking with love.

— Gabriel García Márquez

Don’t let yourself die without knowing the wonder of fucking with love

— Gabriel García Márquez

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 García Márquez