"For those who may be hurting over..." - Quote by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry. With both you are working with reality, a material just as hard as wood.”

“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.”

“This was when I heard that the first symptom of old age is when you begin to resemble your father.”

“Lovers have a way of using this word, nothing, which implies exactly the opposite.”

“In Oran, as elsewhere, for want of time and thought, people have to love one another without knowing it.”

“In friendship, as in love, we are often more happy from the things we are ignorant of than from those we are acquainted with.”

“Losing's a great motivator.”

“It was one thing to divide the major assets, but how was it possible to divide the heart?”

“I watch with breaking heart as you slowly fade away”