"t nightfall, atthe oppressive moment of transition, a storm of carnivorous mosquitoes roseout of the swamps, and a tender breath of human shit, warm a...
The people one loves should take all their things with them when they die.
~ Gabriel García Márquez ~
Photo by Ákos Szabó
Photo by Ian Turnell
The people one loves should take all their things with them when they die.
More Gabriel García Márquez quotes
"Each man is master of his own death, and all that we can do when the time comes is to help him die without fear of pain.
"My God, if I had a heart, I would write my hate on ice, and wait for the sun to show.
"and realized that death was not only a permanent probability, as he had always believed, but an immediate reality.
"She nailed it to the wall with her well-aimed dart, like a butterfly with no will whose sentence has always been written.
"At eighty-one years of age he had enough lucidity to realize that he was attached to this world by a few slender threads that could break painlessly w...
"The ferocity of Santiago Nasar's fate, which had collected twenty years of happiness from him not only with his death but also with the dismemberment ...
"The young doctor was disappointed: he had never had th eopportunity to study the effects of gold cyanide on a cadaver. Dr. Juvenal Urbino had been sur...
"Eran gentes de vidas lentas, a las cuales no se les veía volverse viejas, ni enfermarse ni morir, sino que iban desvaneciéndose poco a poco en su tiem...
"We men are the slaves of prejudice,' he had once said to her. 'But when a woman decides to sleep with a man, there is no wall she will not scale, no f...
"Dr. Urbino caught the parrot around the neck with a triumphant sigh: ça y est. But he released him immediately because the ladder slipped from under h...
"Little by little she had been discovering the uncertainty of her husband's step, his mood changes, the gaps in his memory, his recent habit of sobbing...
"They were people whose lives were slow, who did not see themselves growing old, or falling sick, or dying, but who disappeared little by little in the...
"She prayed to God to give him at least a moment so that he would not go without knowing how much she had loved him despite all their doubts, and she f...
"At eight-one years of age he had enough lucidity to realize that he was attached to this world by a few slender threads that could break painlessly wi...