One Hundred Years of Solitude

"The world was so recent that many things lacked names."

"One thing they all had in common was that they were doomed to solitude."

"She had discovered that it was impossible to love in the same way twice."

"The most important thing was not the journey but the dreams it awakened."

"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."

"Wars are made by something inside of men, something deep inside of them."

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

"In Macondo, the impossible was merely what had not yet been attempted."

"She died believing in the redemption of those she loved most."

"The Buendía family was condemned to repeat the same mistakes eternally."

"He understood too late that paradise cannot be constructed, only remembered."

"Fate does not allow those who dare to challenge it to rest."

"The manuscript contained the entire history that had yet to be lived."

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

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

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

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

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

"The gypsies had promised him that he would find paradise on earth."

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

"Time had made them ghosts of themselves."

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

"What matters in life is not what we accomplish but what we overcome."

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

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

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

"The future is already written."

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

"War makes us understand that we are not immortal."

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