It was inevitable: the scent of bitter almonds always reminded him of the fate of unrequited love.
Submitted on Friday, December 25, 2009 - 15:31 — GabrielleWho Said It?:Gabriel García MárquezSource:Love in the Time of Cholera
Link to full quote: Quote #2419 from Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez.
He dug so deeply into her sentiments that in search of interest he found love, because by trying to make her love him he ended up falling in love with her. Petra Cotes, for her part, loved him more and more as she felt his love increasing, and that was how in the ripeness of autumn she began to believe once more in the youthful superstition that poverty was the servitude of love. Both looked back then on the wild revelry, the gaudy wealth, and the unbridled fornication as an annoyance and they lamented that it had cost them so much of their lives to find the paradise of shared solitude. Madly in love after so many years of sterile complicity, they enjoyed the miracle of living each other as much at the table as in bed, and they grew to be so happy that even when they were two worn-out people they kept on blooming like little children and playing together like dogs.
Submitted on Thursday, April 23, 2009 - 21:13 — GabrielleWho Said It?:Gabriel García MárquezSource:One Hundred Years Of Solitude
Link to full quote: Quote #2235 from One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez.
On Sunday night I tried on the wedding dress in my step-mother's bedroom. I looked pale and clean in the mirror, wrapped in that cloud of powdery froth that reminded me of my mother's ghost. I said to myself in front of the mirror: 'That's me. Isabel. I'm dressed as a bride who's going to be married tomorrow morning.' And I didn't recognise myself; I felt weighted down with the memory of my dead mother. Meme had spoken to me about her on this same corner a few days before. she told me that after I was born my mother was dressed in her bridal clothes and placed in a coffin. And now, looking at myself in the mirror, I saw my mother's bones covered by the mold of the tomb in a pile of crumpled gauze and compact yellow dust. I was outside the mirror. Inside was my mother, alive again, looking at me, stretching her arms out from her frozen space, trying to touch the death that was held together by the first pins of my bridal veil. And in back, in the center of the bedroom, my father, perplexed: 'She looks just like her now in that dress.'
That night I received my first, last, and only love letter.
Submitted on Thursday, March 19, 2009 - 14:30 — GabrielleWho Said It?:Gabriel García MárquezSource:Leaf Storm
Link to full quote: Quote #2030 from Leaf Storm by Gabriel García Márquez.
I always thought that dead people should have hats on. Now I can see that they shouldn't. I can see that they have a head like wax and a handkerchief tied around their jawbone. I can see that they have their mouth open a little and that behind the purple lips you can see the stained and irregular teeth. I can see that they keep their tongue bitten over to one side, thick and sticky, a little darker than the colour of their face, which is like the colour of fingers clutching a stick. I can see that they have their eyes open much wider than a man's, anxious and wild, and that their skin seems to be made of tight damp earth. I thought that a dead man would look like somebody quiet and asleep and now I can see that it's just the opposite. I can see that he looks like someone awake and in a rage after a fight.
Submitted on Thursday, March 19, 2009 - 14:30 — GabrielleWho Said It?:Gabriel García MárquezSource:Leaf Storm
Link to full quote: Quote #1876 from Leaf Storm by Gabriel García Márquez.
She felt so old, so worn out, so far away from the best moments of her life that she even yearned for those that she remembered as the worst, and only then did she discover how much she missed the whiff of oregano on the porch and the smell of the roses at dusk. Her heart of compressed ash, which had resisted the most telling blows of daily reality without strain, fell apart with the first waves of nostalgia. The need to feel sad was becoming a vice as the years eroded her. She became human in her solitude.
Submitted on Thursday, March 19, 2009 - 14:30 — GabrielleWho Said It?:Gabriel García MárquezSource:One Hundred Years Of Solitude
Link to full quote: Quote #1805 from One Hundred Years Of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez.
She wept for the first time since the afternooon of the disaster, without witnesses, which was the only way she wept. She wept for the death of her husband, for her solitude and rage, and when she went into the empty bedroom she wept for herself because she had rarely slept alone in that bed since the loss of her virginity. Everything that belonged to her husband made her weep again: his tasseled slippers, his pajamas under the pillow, the space of his absence in the dressing table mirror, his own odor on her skin. A vague thought made her shudder: 'The people one loves should take all their things with them when they die.' She did not want anyone's help to get ready for bed, she did not want to eat anything before she went to sleep. Crushed by grief, she prayed to God to send her death that night while she slept, and with that hope she lay down, barefoot but fully dressed, and fell asleep on the spot. She slept without realizing it, but she knew in her sleep that she was still alive, and that she had half a bed to spare, that she was lying on her left side on the left-hand side of the bed as she always did, but that she missed the weight of the other body on the other side. Thinking as she slept, she thought that she would never again be able to sleep this way, and she began to sob in her sleep, and she slept, sobbing, without changing positions on her side of the bed, until long after the roosters crowed and she was awakened by the despised sun of the morning without...
Submitted on Thursday, March 19, 2009 - 14:29 — GabrielleWho Said It?:Gabriel García MárquezSource:Love in the Time of Cholera
Link to full quote: Quote #1384 from Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez.
Florentino Ariza wrote every night. Letter by letter, he had no mercy as he poisoned himself with the smoke from the palm oil lamps in the back room of the notions shop, and his letters became more discursive and more lunatic the more he tried to imitate his favorite poets from the Popular Library, which even at that time was approaching eighty volumes. His mother, who had urged him with so much fervor to enjoy his torment, became concerned for his health. 'You are going to wear out your brains,' she shouted at him from the bedroom when she heard the first roosters crow. 'No woman is worth all that.' She could not remember ever having known anyone in such a state of unbridled passion. But he paid no attention to her. Sometimes he went to the office without having slept, his hair in an uproar of love after leaving the letter in the prearranged hiding place so that Fermina Daza would find it on her way to school. She, on the other hand, under the watchful eye of her father and the vicious spying of the nuns, could barely manage to fill half a page from her notebook when she locked herself in the bathroom or pretended to take notes in class. But this was not only due to her limited time and the danger of being taken by surprise, it was also her nature that caused her letters to avoid emotional pitfalls and confine themselves to relating the events of her daily life in the utilitarian style of a ship's log. In reality they were distracted letters, intended to keep the coals...
Submitted on Thursday, March 19, 2009 - 14:29 — GabrielleWho Said It?:Gabriel García MárquezSource:Love in the Time of Cholera
Link to full quote: Quote #1358 from Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez.
"The world must be all fucked up," he said then, "when men travel first class and literature goes as freight." That was the last thing he was heard to say.
Submitted on Thursday, March 19, 2009 - 14:28 — GabrielleWho Said It?:Gabriel García MárquezSource:One Hundred Years Of Solitude
Link to full quote: Quote #152 One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez.
On my own body are scars that prove I belong to Christ Jesus. So I don't want anyone to bother me anymore.
Submitted on Thursday, March 19, 2009 - 14:28 — GabrielleWho Said It?:Galatians 6:17, The Bible
Link to full quote: Quote #167 by Galatians 6:17, The Bible.
How many nights must it take
one such as me to learn
that we aren't, after all, made
from that bird that flies out of its ashes,
that for us
as we go up in flames, our one work
is
to open ourselves, to be
the flames?Submitted on Thursday, March 19, 2009 - 14:30 — GabrielleWho Said It?:Galway KinnellSource:Another Night in the Ruins
Link to full quote: Quote #2093 from Another Night in the Ruins by Galway Kinnell.
Sleeping with ghosts
It's such a lonely experience
The stars are out tonight
Only they can hear you breathing.Submitted on Thursday, March 19, 2009 - 14:29 — GabrielleWho Said It?:GarbageSource:So Like A Rose
Link to full quote: Quote #1190 from So Like A Rose by Garbage.
Oh doctor
Submitted on Thursday, March 19, 2009 - 14:29 — Gabrielle
We're dying
There's no use in crying
So live for tomorrow
And do what you have to.
Link to full quote: Quote #1192 from Parade by Garbage.
I smoke your brand of cigarettes
And pray that you might give me a call
I lie around in bed all day just staring at the walls
Hanging round bars at night wishing I had never been born
And give myself to anyone who wants to take me home.Submitted on Thursday, March 19, 2009 - 14:29 — GabrielleWho Said It?:GarbageSource:Cup Of Coffee
Link to full quote: Quote #1193 from Cup Of Coffee by Garbage.
Somebody get me out of here
I'm tearing at myself
Nobody gives a damn about me
Or anybody else.Submitted on Thursday, March 19, 2009 - 14:29 — GabrielleWho Said It?:GarbageSource:Medication
Link to full quote: Quote #1194 from Medication by Garbage.
I will lie for you
Beg and steal for you
I will crawl on hands and knees until you see
You're just like meViolate all the love that I'm missing
Throw away all the pain that I'm living
You will believe in me
And I can never be ignoredI would die for you
Submitted on Thursday, March 19, 2009 - 14:29 — Gabrielle
I would kill for you
I will steal for you
I'd do time for you
I will wait for you
I'd make room for you
I'd sail ships for you
To be close to you
To be part of you
'Cause I believe in you
I believe in you
I would die for you.
Link to full quote: Quote #1134 from #1 Crush by Garbage.
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