"The adolescents of my generation, greedy for..." - Quote by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“Aureliano not only understood by then, he also lived his brother’s experiences as something of his own, for on one occasion when the latter was explaining in great detail the mechanism of love, he interrupted him to ask: “What does it feel like?” José Arcadio gave an immediate reply: “It’s like an earthquake.”

“Although some men who were easy with their words said that it was worth sacrificing one’s life for a night of love with such an arousing woman, the truth was that no one made any effort to do so. Perhaps, not only to attain her but also to conjure away her dangers, all that was needed was a feeling as primitive and as simple as that of love, but that was the only thing that did not occur to anyone.”

“The children would remember for the rest of their lives the august solemnity with which their father, devastated by his prolonged vigil and by the wraith of his imagination, revealed his discovery to them: 'The world is round, like an orange.”

“I want to help change the way young people look at school, and hence, the way they look at their futures.”

“We are all born children- the trick is remaining one.”

“To get back one's youth one has merely to repeat one's follies.”

“Your life is but a reflection of the predominance of your thoughts.”

“I still like to live in a whimsical world that seems more romantic and fantasy-related because real life seems so hard”

“If the universe is meaningless, so is the statement that it is so. If this world is a vicious trap, so is its accuser, and the pot is calling the kettle black.”