One Hundred Years of Solitude

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

"Nothing was true until it had been recorded in writing."

"The past was a snake."

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

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

"Even miracles could tire after a while."

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

"The secret of a good old age is simply an honest pact with solitude."

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

"Melancholy was congenital in the family."

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

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

"The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well."

"It was the war that made him sad."

"You will always be in my prayers with the hope that you will find someone who truly deserves you."

"Wars are not won by artillery."

"The world is sad because you're alive."

"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."

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

"The line between madness and genius is thinner than we believe"

"In the end, all stories are the same story told different ways"

"The greatest love affair is the one that destroys you completely"

"Freedom is a burden that few are capable of carrying"