Gabriel García Márquez quotes
It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams. 
Human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but ... life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves. 
sex is the consolation you have when you can't have love 
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. 
nothing in this world is more difficult than love. 
The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast. 
Always remember that the past was a lie, that memory has no return, that every spring gone by could never be recovered, and that the wildest and most tenacious love was an ephemeral truth in the end. 
He was still too young to know that the heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good, and that thanks to this artifice we manage to endure the burden of the past. All Gabriel García Márquez quotes ⇑
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.
It was inevitable: the scent of bitter almonds always reminded him of the fate of unrequited love.
Fiction was invented the day Jonah arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale..
Tell him yes. Even if you are dying of fear, even if you are sorry later, because whatever you do, you will be sorry all the rest of your life if you say no.
Be calm. God awaits you at the door.
Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice...