Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)

"It was the war that made him sad."

"She had discovered that it was impossible to return to yesterday."

"One must endure even when love becomes an act of desperation."

"Melancholy was congenital in the family."

"It was a measureless house in which the outside world had simply declared itself to be the inside."

"He could not understand how so much hatred was possible in such a small body."

"They were like two adversaries whose hostility was rooted in a primal understanding."

"The truth is that she was not capable of thinking of a single thing without wishing it were different."

"She had developed an unexpected maternal instinct that went beyond the boundaries of her own blood."

"Time was not passing, as if it had solidified under the heat."

"He had wasted half his life searching for the truth and the other half hiding it."

"The only truth is that she had learned to love without expecting anything in return."

"It was during these months that it came to be understood how much that house needed love."

"Even miracles could tire after a while."

"He discovered that his greatest weakness was an excess of strength."

"She died the way she had lived, thinking of others and forgetting herself."

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

"She understood finally that beauty fades but goodness remains."

"Every man carries within him the memory of his own death."

"She had learned that the heart has its own intelligence."

"Even the most profound love could not survive indifference."

"The house had gradually transformed into a tomb of living memories."

"She realized that forgiveness required more courage than any battle."

"Time had made them ghosts of themselves."

"He discovered that passion destroys as surely as hatred."

"She understood that love was the only thing that could transcend time."

"Death announced itself with a scent of bitter almonds."

"The town was a place where the impossible had become commonplace."

"He carried his solitude like a wound that would never heal."

"She had learned that happiness was a fleeting visitor."