Love in the Time of Cholera

By Gabriel Garcia Marquez QUOTATION: A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.
ATTRIBUTION: Gabriel García Márquez (b. 1928), Colombian writer. Love in the Time of Cholera (1985, trans. 1988).

QUOTATION: No, not rich. I am a poor man with money, which is not the same thing.
ATTRIBUTION: Gabriel García Márquez (b. 1928), Colombian writer. Uncle Leo XII, in Love in the Time of Cholera, p. 167 (1985, trans. 1988).

QUOTATION: He repeated until his dying day that there was no one with more common sense, no stonecutter more obstinate, no manager more lucid or dangerous, than a poet.
ATTRIBUTION: Gabriel García Márquez (b. 1928), Colombian writer. Love in the Time of Cholera, p. 168 (1985, trans. 1988).

QUOTATION: She discovered with great delight that one does not love one’s children just because they are one’s children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.
ATTRIBUTION: Gabriel García Márquez (b. 1928), Colombian writer. Love in the Time of Cholera (1985, repr. 1988).

QUOTATION: The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.
ATTRIBUTION: Gabriel García Márquez (b. 1928), Colombian writer. repr. In Penguin edition (1988). Dr. Urbino, in Love in the Time of Cholera, p. 09 (1985).