One Hundred Years of Solitude

"In the end, all that remained was silence and dust."

"The discovery of ice was like the discovery of a new planet."

"He could not escape the maze that Macondo had become."

"The beauty of Remedios transcended the limits of reality."

"Madness runs in the blood of this house."

"They read the codices as if reading a newspaper from the future."

"The decadence of the family was written in the stones of the house itself."

"He was destined to wander like a ghost in his own house."

"She never forgave him for the betrayal, though she never mentioned it."

"The past returns in the form of a curse."

"He had found in alchemy a refuge from the unbearable reality of existence."

"In Macondo it did not rain for nearly five years."

"The rebellion was not against the government, but against oblivion."

"Solitude had a price that few were willing to pay."

"Love was a contagious disease that spread through the house."

"They confused the signs of age with the onset of winter."

"The truth is that no one would remember him after he was gone."

"She was not willing to admit defeat in matters of the heart."

"The living are too occupied with their own lives to worry about the dead."

"A human being is not entitled to abandon hope, no matter the circumstances."

"Aureliano had lived so much that he had run out of dreams."

"The circus brought a kind of magic that the world had never known."

"She understood that he was not the man she had married."

"It was as though time had bent in ways that confused the natural order."

"The house was full of ghosts and only those who had lived in it could see them."

"They were not destined to find a path back to each other."

"He had the ability to recognize in advance the outcome of events."

"The truth is that she had a stubborn temperament."

"Wars are not made of anything else but of defeated men."

"Memory is a mirror looking forward."