Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)

"He spent fortunes trying to understand the universe."

"The market was a symphony of life and commerce."

"The yellow butterflies marked the presence of love."

"She was as distant as the stars yet as near as breath."

"The church promised salvation to those who believed."

"The revolution promised freedom but delivered tyranny."

"He loved her with the intensity of a dying flame."

"The town was cursed by its own prosperity."

"She danced as if she were conducting the stars."

"The parchments held the secrets of eternity."

"Time had stolen his face but not his soul."

"The end was written from the very beginning."

"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."

"Macondo was already a fearful whirlwind of dust and rubble being spun about by the wrath of the biblical wind."

"He was still in his pajamas and in his bare feet, but he had the air of someone more awake than the most awake men in the world."

"They had come from far away, attracted by the guarantee of truth."

"No matter what, she will always remember the taste of almonds."

"In the end, it didn't matter whether they believed or not. What mattered was that they were afraid."

"One could see that she had been beautiful once, perhaps even very beautiful."

"They were doomed to one hundred years of solitude."

"There is always something about the appearance of a face that leaves one sad—a harsh thing in the light, perhaps, or its mere structure, or the usual expressions."

"The past was a fixed and iron-bound period over which the historians held a total and absolute power."

"It was as though the world had not yet been born, as though everything were still chaos."

"Time advances in its own fashion, indifferent to the desires of men."

"She was like a cathedral of loneliness, inviolable and immense."

"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"

"She was still so young that she was not afraid of the future"

"One afternoon, realizing that he was old, Aureliano Segundo began to weep"