Carmen > Carmen's Quotes

“we saw heroic portraits of saints and soldiers thrown to the floor among broken furniture and fresh cow flops”
― Gabriel García Márquez, The Autumn of the Patriarch

“we grew accustomed to believe that he was alive in the house of power because someone had seen him light the Chinese lanterns at some festival, someone had told about seeing his sad eyes, his pale lips, his pensive hand waving through the liturgical decorations of the presidential coach”
― Gabriel García Márquez, The Autumn of the Patriarch

“no mortal had ever seen him since the days of the black vomit and yet we knew that he was there, we knew it because the world went on”
― Gabriel García Márquez, The Autumn of the Patriarch

“in the deserted sanctuary we found the rubble of grandeur”
― Gabriel García Márquez, The Autumn of the Patriarch

“overcome the drowsiness of dawn and confront the hazards of reality”
― Gabriel García Márquez, The Autumn of the Patriarch

“he had become resigned forever to live a destiny that was not his”
― Gabriel García Márquez, The Autumn of the Patriarch

“honeyed by the breezes of love”
― Gabriel García Márquez, The Autumn of the Patriarch

“he wallowed in the great slough of felicity, dreaming alone, tiptoeing like an evil thought”
― Gabriel García Márquez, The Autumn of the Patriarch

“the Goddamned fools didn't know that in this business of men if you fall, you fall”
― Gabriel García Márquez, The Autumn of the Patriarch

“even the toughest man can feel his ass freeze up when he crowns a beauty whore and doesn't know from what direction death will explode in on him”
― Gabriel García Márquez, The Autumn of the Patriarch

“God damn it, just a good minister of health which is the only thing anyone really needs in life, and maybe another one with a good hand for what has to be put in writing”
― Gabriel García Márquez, The Autumn of the Patriarch

“Oh, divine was the angel Ermengarde! and as I looked down into the depths of her memorial eyes, I thought only of them - and of her.”
― Edgar Allen Poe, Tales of Edgar Allen Poe

“I'm tired of begging God to overthrow my son, because all this business of living in the presidential palace is like having the lights on all the time”
― Gabriel García Márquez, The Autumn of the Patriarch

“because after all we're our own dogs now, mother, long live the plague”
― Gabriel García Márquez, The Autumn of the Patriarch

“Books have to be heavy because the whole world's inside them.”
― Cornelia Funke, Inkheart

“he was once more the master of all his power and that the enigma of his heart oppressed by the rage over death was rising up stronger than ever against the whims of reason and dignity and indulgence”
― Gabriel García Márquez, The Autumn of the Patriarch

“only the hens could do what they wanted in the forbidden house whose master had become invisible”
― Gabriel García Márquez, The Autumn of the Patriarch

“I was frightened with the first silence of your death which was as if the world had dawned at the bottom of the sea”
― Gabriel García Márquez, The Autumn of the Patriarch

“You carry the burden of your words.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, The Autumn of the Patriarch

“Only one who knew the truth would have the courage to lie to him”
― Gabriel García Márquez, The Autumn of the Patriarch

“he will inherit his mother's spirit of sacrifice and his father's greatness and his own destiny of an invisible conductor”
― Gabriel García Márquez, The Autumn of the Patriarch

“you were what I wanted you to be the interpreter of my highest designs”
― Gabriel García Márquez, The Autumn of the Patriarch

“we bore the certainty that he was there, we felt the invisible presence that watched over our destiny so that it would not be altered by the disorder of poetry”
― Gabriel García Márquez, The Autumn of the Patriarch