Gorka Marquez Quotes

My God, if I had a heart, I would write my hate on ice, and wait for the sun to show. ~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez

It is a triumph of life that old people lose their memories of inessential things ... ~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez

At noon I get to the gym to do my boxing workout. Three hours there. Rest. Once in a while I get a massage, because I need it once in while. ~ Juan Manuel Marquez

I do not believe in decent women who do not know how to play the piano. ~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez

All those people - poor Sr. Marquez, Ana-Letitia, Sergio - they died because of me? I brought that down on them? Oh, God!"
Then she turned and fled up the stairs.
"Well, I'd say you handled that with great sensivity."
"Go to hell, Hunter!" Zach stood there, staring after her.
"Your first. ~ Pamela Clare

Love is hope without doubt, hate is fear turned out. ~ John Gorka

You have a heart of stone," she told him.
"It's not a question of a heart," he said. "The room's getting full of moths. ~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez

She sensed it, saw my eyes wet with tears, and only then must have discovered I was no longer the man I had been, and I endured her glance with a courage I never thought I had. ~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez

The move to Arcata was seen by my grandparents as a journey into forgetting. ~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez

The symptoms of love are the same as those of cholera. ~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez

I've remained a virgin for you. ~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez

It was against all scientific reason for two people who hardly knew each other, with no ties at all between them, with different characters, different upbringings, and even different genders, to suddenly find themselves committed to living together, to sleeping in the same bed, to sharing two destinies that perhaps were fated to go in opposite directions. ~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez

The only everyday and eternal reality was love. ~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez

fear of death is the amber of happiness ~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez

I can't think of any film that improved on a good novel, but I can think of many good films that came from very bad novels. ~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez

We cannot intervene in the rotation of the earth," said Delaura.
"But we could be unaware of it so that it does not cause us grief," said the Bishop. ~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez

The only regret I will have in dying is if it is not for love. ~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez

She made a visual inventory of the disaster and confirmed that the girl was curled up like a snail, her head hidden between her arms: terrified but intact. "My God!" Rosa Cabarcas exclaimed. "What I wouldn't have given for a love like this! ~ 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

No, not rich, he said. I am a poor man with money, not the same thing. ~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez

He was just like his father," Victoria Guzmán answered her. "A shit. ~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez

It was as if God had decided to put to the test every capacity for surprise and was keeping the inhabitants of Macondo in a permanent alteration between excitement and disappointment, doubt and revelation, to such an extreme that no one knew for certain where the limits of reality lay. ~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez

She suspected too late that behind his professional authority and worldly charm, the man she had married was a hopeless weakling: a poor devil made bold by the social weight of his family names. ~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Tricks you need to transform something which appears fantastic, unbelievable into something plausible, credible, those I learned from journalism. The key is to tell it straight. It is done by reporters and by country folk. ~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez

The only Virgos left in the world are people like you who were born in August. ~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez

She wanted to be herself again, to recover all that she had been obliged to give up in half a century of servitude that had doubtless made her happy but which, once her husband was dead, did not leave her even the vestiges of her identity. ~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez

For a week, almost without speaking,
they went ahead like sleepwalkers through a universe of grief, lighted only by the tenuous
reflection of luminous insects, and their lungs were overwhelmed by a suffocating smell of blood. ~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Madly in love after so many years of sterile complicity, 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 little children and playing like dogs. ~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez

I started boxing when I was eight. Me and my brother Rafael started boxing in amateur tournaments when I was 13. My father was an ex-pro boxer. ~ Juan Manuel Marquez

An early-rising man is a good spouse but a bad husband. ~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez

But meanwhile, we've got to sustain the illusions of those who stay with something. ~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Her nakedness was not absolute, for like Manet's _Olympia__, behind her ear she had a poisonous flower with orange petals, and she also wore a gold bangle on her right wrist and a necklace of tiny pearls. I imagined I would never see anything more exciting for as long as I lived, and today I can confirm that I was right. ~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez

In the plenitude of their relationship, Florentina Ariza asked himself which of the two was love: the turbulent bed or the peaceful Sunday afternoons, and Sara Noriega calmed him with the simple argument that love was everything they did naked. She said, 'Spiritual love from the waist up and physical love from the waist down. ~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Take care,' said Delaura. 'Sometimes we attribute certain things we do not understand to the demon, not thinking they may be things of God that we do not understand.'
'Saint Thomas said it, and I will be guided by him,' said the Abbess: 'One must not believe demons even when they speak the truth. ~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez

A famous writer who wants to continue writing has to be constantly defending himself against fame. ~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez

For that was what he needed: to let his soul escape through his mouth. ~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez

When I lost my faith in people I put my trust in things To avoid the disappointment Trusting people brings ... I tried to do it all myself then Surrounded by my stuff All I found were limitations I could not rise above There are gadgets and contraptions Immaculate machines There's a program you can download now That will even dream your dreams It'll even dream you dreams For a monthly fee Clear up your complexion You get a hundred hours free Possessions cannot save you. ~ John Gorka

It always amuses me that the biggest praise for my work comes for the imagination, while the truth is that there's not a single line in all my work that does not have a basis in reality. The problem is that Caribbean reality resembles the wildest imagination. ~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Fatality makes us invisible. ~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez

The air was so damp that fish could have come in through doors and swum out the windows, floating through the atmosphere in the rooms. One morning Ursula woke up feeling that she was reaching her end in a placid swoon and she had already asked them to take her to Father Antonio Isabel, when Santa Sofia de la Piedad discovered that her back was paved with leeches. She took them off one by one, crushing them with a firebrand before they bled her to death. ~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Wherever they might be they 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. ~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Until her last moment on earth she was unaware that her irreparable fate as a disturbing woman was a daily disaster. ~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez