Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)

"He was incapable of imagining how much he might have loved her if she had allowed him to do so."

"The most terrible thing about death is not that we die, but that we leave too much unfinished."

"They discovered that they both felt an identical desire to exist."

"In the end, it was clear that one could not choose one's relatives."

"Her maternal instinct was not stronger than her curiosity."

"She was the only one in that household who had a clear view of the future."

"All attempts at magic were nothing more than the crystallization of desire."

"Everything that had ever happened on Earth was repeated one hundred years later."

"He had wasted forty years of his life searching for himself in the mirror of the world."

"The most beautiful thing in the world deserves the most beautiful ending."

"What frightened him was not death, but the fear of being forgotten."

"He learned to decipher the ancient writing during his lucid moments of insanity."

"Madness and science were not always distinct in Macondo."

"She possessed the singular gift of being able to live in multiple times simultaneously."

"The love that endured was not the most passionate, but the most patient."

"One can only be understood by those who share one's own solitude."

"His worst mistake had been believing that the past could be changed by forgetting it."

"She lived in such a state of grace that she did not need to understand the world."

"In the end, they were prisoners of their own blood, unable to escape their destiny."

"The town that had seen miracles was now seeing only the dust of its own decline."

"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 alternation between doubt and revelation."

"She was so realistic that she did not believe in the deceptions of her eyes."

"Memory is not an instrument for exploring the past but a theater for the performance of the past."

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

"She had discovered that they would never get out because they were predestined to solitude."

"He had the look of someone who knows where he is and why."

"In this way the families of insomnia and plague were perpetuating their names through different variations."

"She was not beautiful, but she had a certain clarity in her eyes that was impossible to describe."