Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)

"He discovered that the future had already been written."

"The ghosts of the past walked freely through the town."

"She had learned that love was not always gentle."

"The circus that arrived was like a message from the real world."

"The town existed in a state between reality and fiction."

"To live is to accumulate more regrets than memories."

"The final days of the town arrived without fanfare or prophecy."

"All the sadness of the world was concentrated in that instant."

"It was as if God had decided to put to the test every capacity for surprise and was keeping the inhabitants of Macondo in a permanent alternation between doubt and revelation, doubt and revelation, to such an extreme that no one knew for certain where the limits of reality lay."

"He really had been through death, but he had returned because he could not bear the solitude."

"One could become drunk merely by taking the dust of the street in one's mouth."

"He loved her without knowing how, without knowing why."

"Age was something that did not exist in Macondo."

"They were doomed to repeat the same line, generation after generation, forever and ever."

"It was though the world had been washed clean."

"Memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but for obscuring it."

"He had not had a single moment of peace since they had closed the shop."

"The beauty of this discovery paled before the austere reality of her oblivion."

"She put her hand on my chest and felt my heart."

"The past was always being renewed and improved in memory."

"In her final years she came to take on an abstract quality, as though she were a living metaphor for human capacity for denial."

"They were never to be together again."

"The rain would last for eleven months and eleven days."

"He had lost not only his reason but also the ability to remember his passion."

"Macondo was already a fearful whirlwind of dust and rubble."

"She did not weep because she was alone; she wept because someone had stopped loving her."

"The Buendías were not capable of love."

"She understood that men were not as indispensable as she had once believed."

"The world was magical and mechanical at the same time."

"He closed his eyes and allowed himself to be pulled along by time."