Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)

"The beauty of Macondo lay in its endless capacity for renewal."

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

"It was as if God had decided to test every capacity for surprise and was keeping the inhabitants of Macondo in a permanent alternation between doubt and revelation."

"The world was so recent that many things lacked names, and in order to indicate them it was necessary to point."

"She really had been through death, but returned because she could not endure the solitude of death."

"Remedios the Beauty did not say goodbye to anyone, merely lay down on her bed to wait for the six o'clock train."

"One could see that they had been married for many years by the way they moved in unison, like a single organism."

"He was still too young to know that the past is full of such reversals."

"It was then that she realized that death is not the end."

"The world was changing and they were not aware of it."

"They seemed to be awake in a world that was still asleep."

"The truth is that she had a stubborn temperament."

"He had the ability to recognize in advance the outcome of events."

"They were not destined to find a path back to each other."

"The house was full of ghosts and only those who had lived in it could see them."

"It was as though time had bent in ways that confused the natural order."

"She understood that he was not the man she had married."

"The circus brought a kind of magic that the world had never known."

"Aureliano had lived so much that he had run out of dreams."

"The living are too occupied with their own lives to worry about the dead."

"She was not willing to admit defeat in matters of the heart."

"The truth is that no one would remember him after he was gone."

"They confused the signs of age with the onset of winter."

"Love was a contagious disease that spread through the house."

"Solitude had a price that few were willing to pay."

"In Macondo it did not rain for nearly five years."

"He had found in alchemy a refuge from the unbearable reality of existence."

"The past returns in the form of a curse."

"She never forgave him for the betrayal, though she never mentioned it."

"He was destined to wander like a ghost in his own house."