Between the covers of the books that no one had ever read again, in th…

Gabriel Garcia Marquez
321 citations
Between the covers of the books that no one had ever read again, in the old parchments damaged by dampness, a livid flower had prospered, and in the air that had been the purest and brightest in the house an unbearable smell of rotten memories floated. ✨ Gabriel Garcia Marquez (2014). One Hundred Years of Solitude, p.202, Penguin UK
Hope Reading
25

More Author Quotes

For a week I did not take off my mechanic's coverall day or night I did not bathe or shave or brush my teeth because love taught me too late that you groom yourself for someone you dress and perfume … ▶
Gaston was not only a fierce lover, with endless wisdom and imagination, but he was also, perhaps, the first man in the history of the species who had made an emergency landing and had come close to … ▶
Time was not passing...it was turning in a circle. ✨ 100 Years of Solitude. Book by Gabriel García Márquez, p. 409, www.counterpunch.org. 2006.
Both looked back then on the wild revelry...and they lamented that it had cost them so much of their lives to find the paradise of shared solitude.
Because he had not done what she, with her heart in her mouth, had hoped he would do, which was to be a man: deny everything, and swear on his life it was not true, and grow indignant at the false ac … ▶

More Author Quotes

Most Cited Authors

The Best Quotes

Most Liked Authors

Curated Author Quotes