One Hundred Years of Solitude

"She carried her past like a stone in her heart."

"The living are deceived by the illusion of time."

"Magic is simply the everyday made extraordinary."

"He had forgotten the meaning of happiness long ago."

"The town existed in a perpetual twilight."

"War leaves scars that never truly heal."

"She loved him with a passion that consumed everything."

"The family was cursed to solitude from the beginning."

"They were bound by fate to repeat the same mistakes."

"The rain fell without mercy for years."

"He spent his entire life trying to escape his past."

"The dead were more alive than the living."

"She understood that her life had been an illusion."

"The war had stripped away his youth."

"He had never known real fear until that moment."

"It was love at first sight."

"The gypsies always come back."

"She was wearing a dress of pale yellow."

"The past was still a living thing."

"In the end we are the same people we were a thousand years ago."

"They looked like a couple of melancholy old people, perfectly suited to each other."

"He had discovered that it was not a matter of illusion but of a certain moral weakness."

"Things have a life of their own. The only thing we have to do is give them a chance to live."

"The only real thing is that I exist."

"It was as if the city had been built with its back to the sea."

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

"One must be very careful about how a woman is treated, for she is made of the same material as dreams."

"The world is certainly round."

"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."