Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)

"She understood that she was not being loved for her beauty alone"

"The town had been built in a forgotten corner of the map"

"He possessed a supernatural ability to forget the past"

"Love was a temporary illusion that came and went without warning"

"The pendulum of the clock seemed to measure not time but eternity"

"She bore her suffering with a grace that bordered on holiness"

"The final pages were suddenly revealed"

"The solitude of the living was a different kind of solitude than that of the dead"

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

"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 alteration between doubt and revelation, doubt and revelation."

"The only thing they left behind was a wake of ghost footprints in the room."

"She had discovered that it was impossible to return to the past."

"One must endure the most unbearable circumstances without the aid of hope."

"The past is packed with ought-to-bes; the future with mere maybes."

"Death really did exist then."

"The only thing that was left was a golden trail of butterfly dust."

"They had lived together so long with the same habits that they understood each other without words."

"It was as though the whole town had become infected with insomnia."

"Remedios the Beautiful ascended to heaven while folding laundry."

"The secrets of the past were locked in manuscripts no one could read."

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

"They had forgotten how to cry by then."

"The cyclone has arrived."

"They had never heard anyone sing so well."

"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 put to the 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."

"He did not know it was impossible because he was only recently arrived in the world and he had not yet received an adequate presentation of the way things are."

"She would have preferred a son, but she accepted her daughter with grace."