Gabriel Garcia Marquez

"To him she seemed so beautiful, so seductive, so different from ordinary people, that he could not understand why no one was as disturbed as he by the clicking of her heels on the paving stones, why no one else's heart was wild with the breeze stirred by the sighs of her veils, why everyone did not go mad with the movements of her braid, the flight of her hands, the gold of her laughter. He had not missed a single one of her gestures, not one of the indications of her character, but he did not dare approach her for fear of destroying the spell."

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Source: FaceBook post by Gabriel García Márquez from Mar 25, 2015

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Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Novelist, Short Story Writer, Journalist

Gabriel Garcia Marquez was a Colombian novelist known for his magical realism, particularly in 'One Hundred Years of Solitude,' which explores themes of love and memory.

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