Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)

"He was still in the midst of his labyrinthine mental wanderings when Remedios the Beauty began to rise."

"Time was not passing, as it might have in the outside world, but instead was turning in a circle."

"She would discover that trying to maintain a house became harder the older she got."

"The cruelest of all losses is the loss of friendship."

"She had read her fill of tragic novels and she was confident that passion would overcome every obstacle."

"Men have taken flight, for they are made of air."

"It was as if a plague of forgetting had touched the town with its brush."

"To be born is already in itself a form of death."

"Without knowing why, she felt that she had been transformed into something like crystal."

"It was as if an instinctive loyalty had awakened him to the reality of his loss."

"The butterfly that had visited them in those early days had long since transformed into dust."

"Everything was written to be forgotten."

"In every woman there lives a man who once loved her."

"She discovered the hidden power of words and the difficulty of explaining them to others."

"The most terrifying spectacle in nature was the appearance of the aurora with an extraordinary light."

"He had traveled far enough to know that these fantasies were not born from imagination."

"No matter what happens, one would never possess her soul."

"It was understood that the years of prosperity had closed for the Buendías forever."

"She felt as though she were drowning in a labyrinth of words."

"The past is composed of all that we have done and all that was done to us."

"Mortification makes the flesh more vulnerable to despair."

"He was able to see through people as if they were made of glass."

"She carried her mother's silence within her like an inheritance."

"Every person on earth has a destiny, and his destiny is what makes him free."

"Remedios the Beautiful was too beautiful for this world."

"He was condemned to one hundred years of solitude."

"The old man rose and looked at the town in ruins and smiled with satisfaction."

"She understood that passion was a force of nature beyond moral judgment."

"The house would no longer harbor the sounds of children or lovers' laughter."

"There were marks of death throughout the house."