Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)

"It was beautiful to see her move through the house with her infallible grace"

"The only regret he had was not having a thousand lives so he could die a thousand deaths for her"

"He had learned from reading that man also had the faculty of imagining atrocities in the future"

"She had discovered that one can be in love with several people at the same time without betraying any of them"

"He had become wise without knowing it"

"It had never occurred to him that memory, too, could wither away"

"She was not beautiful for her beauty, but for the grace with which she accepted her own ugliness"

"The moth-eaten manuscripts began to turn to dust"

"He had fought thirty-two wars and had lost them all"

"There was something about her that made one think of those women"

"Humanity has a tendency to believe that the future is infinite and the past is finite"

"The sky was gloomy, the morning was humid and serene"

"It was a family that could never have endured in the modern world"

"He spent months of deliberation to conceive the law that would bind the family to the house forever"

"She had learned to sew with the same virtuosity that her mother had taught her"

"The mirrors would be covered and one could not look at the dead"

"It was not that he had ceased to understand her, but rather that he no longer loved her"

"A new era was beginning for the family"

"She had accepted her fate with a resignation that was almost supernatural"

"There were seventeen Aurelianos and all of them had an identical destiny"

"The smell of bitter almonds always reminded him of the fatal scent of beauty"

"Macondo had become a powerful city"

"The gypsies returned with all their machines"

"Colonel Aureliano Buendía forgot the Spanish language of his childhood"

"She loved him not for what he was, but for what he meant"

"One could hear the whisper of the wind and the faint music from the nearby town"

"The plague of insomnia was spreading throughout the town"

"He had spent so much time looking at the future that he forgot to look at the past"

"The house was still there, exact and solitary"

"Every plague brings with it a sense of predestination"