Family Quotes

"I am a woman, and women have no choice."

"A child's innocence is precious beyond measure."

"In this way the families of insomnia and plague were perpetuating their names through different variations."

"The family was cursed to repeat the same mistakes across generations."

"Úrsula remained until the moment of her death holding in her memory the name of Remedios the Beauty."

"The warmth of family is the only true shelter from the world's storms."

"Her brother was sleeping beside her, and her mother was smoking in the window."

"To have a daughter is to have your heart walking around outside your body."

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

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

"Sometimes I think my papa is an accordion. When he looks at me and smiles and breathes, I hear all the notes he's never said."

"My father never looked at me with love. Perhaps that was the root of it all."

"The bonds we forge are stronger than the blood we share."

"A house is just a place. What matters is who is in it."

"The Buendías were not capable of love."

"She refused to leave them behind."

"They lived in a town where the same names repeated across generations."

"They were the heirs to a legacy of ghosts."

"Liesel, what are you doing here?"

"Madness is inherited, it runs in families like courage or decency"

"The curse of the Buendías was not in their blood but in their hearts"

"To be a mother is to have one's heart walking outside one's body."

"She loved him like a brother, and that love was worth more than gold."

"A foster parent's love could be as real as any other, built on small kindnesses and shared suffering."

"It was Remedios the Beauty who suggested the idea of using the same names for new generations."

"Sometimes I think my papa is like a street."

"Rosa was a good woman, though her temper was fiery."

"My father had always been vain"

"My mother never loved me"

"My father's cruelty shaped me"