Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)

"The decadence of the family was written in the stones of the house itself."

"They read the codices as if reading a newspaper from the future."

"Madness runs in the blood of this house."

"The beauty of Remedios transcended the limits of reality."

"He could not escape the maze that Macondo had become."

"The discovery of ice was like the discovery of a new planet."

"In the end, all that remained was silence and dust."

"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."

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

"It was as if the city had been built with its back to the sea."

"He had discovered that it was not a matter of illusion but of a certain moral weakness."

"They looked like a couple of melancholy old people, perfectly suited to each other."

"In the end we are the same people we were a thousand years ago."

"The past was still a living thing."

"She was wearing a dress of pale yellow."

"It was love at first sight."

"He had never known real fear until that moment."

"The war had stripped away his youth."

"She understood that her life had been an illusion."

"The dead were more alive than the living."

"He spent his entire life trying to escape his past."

"The rain fell without mercy for years."

"They were bound by fate to repeat the same mistakes."

"The family was cursed to solitude from the beginning."

"She loved him with a passion that consumed everything."

"The town existed in a perpetual twilight."

"He had forgotten the meaning of happiness long ago."

"The living are deceived by the illusion of time."

"She carried her past like a stone in her heart."

"The forests swallowed everything that entered them."