Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)

"He sought redemption in work, though redemption never came."

"The river carried away all certainties."

"She had learned to love without expecting to be loved in return."

"The final truth was that nothing was permanent except change itself."

"He disappeared into the same dust from which he had emerged."

"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."

"Years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice."

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

"Úrsula remained until the moment of her death holding in her memory the name of Remedios the Beauty."

"She was living in a parallel reality, completely impervious to any earthly scourge."

"Even miracles required some degree of skepticism to make them work."

"We are destined to repeat history, endlessly, until we learn from it."

"We cannot escape our nature any more than we can escape the circle of Macondo."

"The price of progress is often the loss of memory."

"We are each other's mirror, endlessly reflecting the same hopes and failures."

"The past has a terrible way of catching up with the present."

"The world will end before we finish discovering it."

"The real plague is not disease but the inability to change."

"The only immortality we possess is in the stories we leave behind."

"We repeat the same patterns until they become the foundation of our world."

"The past is a living thing that breathes and moves among us."

"The wheel turns, but we remain fixed in the center of our own universe."

"The river of time flows backward in Macondo, returning us to our origins."

"We are all strangers in the land of our own childhood."

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

"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."

"They really had been through death, but they had returned because they could not bear the solitude."

"She had discovered that it was impossible to love without dying."