Laylen Garcia Quotes

I was asked the other day if I would be interested in the Nobel Prize, but I think that for me it would be an absolute catastrophe. I would certainly be interested in deserving it, but to
receive it would be terrible. It would just complicate even more the problems of fame. The only thing I really regret in life is not having a daughter. ~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Dead man, listen well. The Great Keep is not like the Otherworld. The Great Keep has many names. To the Norse it is Valhalla, Hall of the Lords. To the Greeks it is Olympus. There are as many names as there are men who would speak them. ~ Kami Garcia

Age isn't how old you are but how old you feel. ~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez

In a belated moment of inspiration, I decided to finish it with the announcement that with this column I was bringing to a happy conclusion a long and worthy life without the sad necessity of having to die. ~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez

The night below. We two. Crystal of pain.
You wept over great distances.
My ache was a clutch of agonies
over your sickly heart of sand. ~ Federico Garcia Lorca

Would you mind taking off your shirt? ~ Cristina Garcia

On Monday, however, when he returned to his house on the Street of Windows, he discovered a letter floating in a puddle inside the entrance, and on the wet envelope he recognized at once the imperious handwriting that so many changes in life had not changed, and he even thought he could detect the nocturnal perfume of withered gardenias, because after the initial shock, his heart told him everything: it was the letter he had been waiting for, without a moment's respite, for over half a century. ~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez

It was the last that remained of a past whose annihilation had not taken place because it was still in a process of annihilation, consuming itself from within, ending at every moment but never ending its ending. ~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez

My dad used to say the evil we enact on each other is worse than anything spirits and demons can do to us. ~ Kami Garcia

In the sky there is nobody asleep. Nobody, nobody.
Nobody is asleep.
The creatures of the moon sniff and prowl about their cabins.
The living iguanas will come and bite the men who do not dream,
and the man who rushes out with his spirit broken will meet on the
street corner
the unbelievable alligator quiet beneath the tender protest of the
stars.

Nobody is asleep on earth. Nobody, nobody.
Nobody is asleep.
In a graveyard far off there is a corpse
who has moaned for three years
because of a dry countryside on his knee;
and that boy they buried this morning cried so much
it was necessary to call out the dogs to keep him quiet.

Life is not a dream. Careful! Careful! Careful!
We fall down the stairs in order to eat the moist earth
or we climb to the knife edge of the snow with the voices of the dead
dahlias.
But forgetfulness does not exist, dreams do not exist;
flesh exists. Kisses tie our mouths
in a thicket of new veins,
and whoever his pain pains will feel that pain forever
and whoever is afraid of death will carry it on his shoulders.

One day
the horses will live in the saloons
and the enraged ants
will throw themselves on the yellow skies that take refuge in the
eyes of cows.

Another day
we will watch the preserved butterflies rise from the dead
and still walking through ~ Federico Garcia Lorca

A man should have a right to be religious if he wants to. The government should not be involved in those decisions. ~ Andy Garcia

She let him finish, scratching his head with the tips of her fingers, and without his having revealed that he was weeping from love, she recognized immediately the oldest sobs in the history of man. ~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez

She would get up at eleven o'clock, completely nude, in the bathroom, killing scorpions as she came out of her dense and prolonged sleep. ~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Well, women are a different species. ~ Kimi Garcia

The type of music we know as classical music began with rich people hiring musicians or owning them in a way. Without funding, it's very hard to have this experience. Be it state money or private money, there has to be someone dedicated to raising the money. ~ Gael Garcia Bernal

It was inevitable: the scent of bitter almonds always reminded him of the fate of unrequited love. ~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez

I'm an exile. My father had the courage to leave with his wife, his mother and three children under twelve. It took more courage to leave, to sacrifice everything for freedom, than to stay. ~ Andy Garcia

I'm not even sure we remembered to kiss. What we had went deeper than a kiss ~ Kami Garcia

I,astonish,Death,with,my,largesse.
She,becomes,a,silly,maid,
Saying, "Never,mind. Never,mind. ~ Jose Garcia Villa

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

If you're going to be a writer you have to be one of the great ones ... After all, there are better ways to starve to death. ~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez

I would rather rudder ~ Victor J. Garcia

She was able to draw no conclusions because her husband's patients, except for mutual friends, were part of his private domain; they were people without identity, known not by their faces but by their pains, not by the colour of their eyes or the evasions of their hearts but by the size of their livers, the coating on their tongues, the blood in their urine, the hallucinations of their feverish nights. ~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Dawns in the dormitory had a suspicious resemblance to happiness. ~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Sex is one's consolation when love is not enough ~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Men demand much more than you think," she would tell her enigmatically. "There's a lot of cooking, a lot of sweeping, a lot of suffering over little things beyond what you think. ~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez

We're like licorice. Not everybody likes licorice, but the people who like licorice really like licorice. ~ Jerry Garcia

When,Nothing,is,so,well,said,
Or,so,well,done,

It,betrays,itself,and,becomes,
Something:

As,apples,by,Cézanne,or,just,
Lines,by,Modrian. ~ Jose Garcia Villa

Vampires drained you one way or another. ~ Silvia Moreno-Garcia

..:Waiting is a process that brings forth great virtues. Hard task, yet, great reward:.. ~ Rafael Garcia

Some girls on the street don't have a lot of money, but they have the best style. It's not about being able to buy everything in the store. ~ Nina Garcia

I suppose I am a snob. I loathe towns. I loathe townspeople. They have small minds and giant backsides. Which is to say, what they lack in interiors they make up in posteriors. ~ Kami Garcia

The only difference today between Liberals and Conservatives is that the Liberals go to mass at five o'clock and the Conservatives at eight. ~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez