Variante: A person doesn't die when he should but when he can.
Fuente: One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967), p. 241, said by Colonel Aureliano Buendía

“Fermina, he said, I have waited for this opportunity for more than half a century, to repeat to you once again my vow of eternal fidelity and everlasting love.”

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Gabriel García Márquez libro El amor en los tiempos del cólera

Fuente: Love in the Time of Cholera

“My God, if I had a heart, I would write my hate on ice, and wait for the sun to show.”

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Gabriel García Márquez

“The rain would not have bothered Fernanda, after all, her whole life had been spent as if it were raining.”

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Gabriel García Márquez libro Cien años de soledad

Fuente: One Hundred Years of Solitude

“He was healthier than the rest of us, but when you listened with the stethoscope you could hear the tears bubbling inside his heart.”

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Gabriel García Márquez libro Crónica de una muerte anunciada

Fuente: Chronicle of a Death Foretold

“How strange women are.”

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Gabriel García Márquez libro El amor en los tiempos del cólera

Fuente: Love in the Time of Cholera

“One never quite stops believing, some doubt remains forever".”

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Gabriel García Márquez libro Del amor y otros demonios

Fuente: Of Love and Other Demons

“She was a ghost in a strange house that overnight had become immense and solitary and through which she wandered without purpose, asking herself in anguish which one of them was deader: the man who had died or the woman he had left behind.”

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Gabriel García Márquez libro El amor en los tiempos del cólera

Fuente: Love in the Time of Cholera

“Ah, me, if this is love, then how it torments.”

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Gabriel García Márquez libro Memoria de mis p*tas tristes

Fuente: Memories of My Melancholy Whores

“It was a lone voice in the middle of the ocean, but it was heard at great depth and great distance.”

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Gabriel García Márquez libro El amor en los tiempos del cólera

Fuente: Love in the Time of Cholera

“… the invincible power that has moved the world is unrequited, not happy love”

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Gabriel García Márquez libro Memoria de mis p*tas tristes

Variante: I became aware that the invincible power that has moved the world is unrequited, not happy, love.
Fuente: Memories of My Melancholy Whores

“Love is not a condition of the spirit but a sign of the zodiac.”

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Gabriel García Márquez libro Memoria de mis p*tas tristes

Fuente: Memories of My Melancholy Whores