"She knew that it would not be..." - Quote by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
She knew that it would not be easy to submit to his miserliness, or the foolishness of his premature appearance of age, or his maniacal sense of order, or his eagerness to as for everything and give nothing at all in return, but despite all this, no man was better company because no other man in the world was so in need of love.
More by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
“Amputees suffer pains, cramps, itches in the leg that is no longer there. That is how she felt without him, feeling his presence where he no longer was.”
“For you was I born, for you do I have life, for you will I die, for you am I now dying.”
“No, not rich. I am a poor man with money, which is not the same thing.”
More on Love
“It is as absurd to say that a man can't love one woman all the time as it is to say that a violinist needs several violins to play the same piece of music.”
“The love of a parent for a child is the love that should grow towards separation.”
“For true love is inexhaustible; the more you give, the more you have. And if you go to draw at the true fountainhead, the more water you draw, the more abundant is its flow.”
More on Relationships
“Lasting harmony with a woman (was) an undertaking in which I twice failed rather disgracefully.”
“She told her, while she kept it, 'Twould make her amiable and subdue my father Entirely to her love, but if she lost it Or made a gift of it, my father's eye Should hold her loathed and his spirits should hunt After new fancies.”
“Marriage is like putting your hand into a bag of snakes in the hope of pulling out an eel.”