1.”Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice.”
2.”He was still too young to know that the heart’s memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good, and that thanks to this artifice we manage to endure the burden of the past.”
3.”It was the first time in many years that the name Ursula Iguaran had been heard in Macondo.”
4.”There is always something left to love.”
5.”It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.”
6.”She discovered with great delight that one does not love one’s children just because they are one’s children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.”
7.”It was the history of the family written, not with ink, but with the embers of the hearth.”
8.”Time was not passing… it was turning in a circle.”
9.”He really had been through death, but he had returned because he could not bear the solitude.”
10.”He had waited for this moment to be alone, so that he could ask himself once again why it was that no one was able to understand him in spite of his evident greatness.”
11.”They were happy because they were in love, but also because they had convinced themselves that nothing bad could happen to them.”
12.”The world was so recent that many things lacked names, and in order to indicate them it was necessary to point.”
13.”The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.”
14.”He did not realize that he was a hopeless romantic until he met her and began to feel things he had never felt before.”
15.”The world must be all fucked up,” he said then, “when men travel first class and literature goes as freight.”
16.”What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.”
17.”It was the first time she had seen herself since she left her father’s house, and she was surprised by her own youth and beauty.”
18.”At that time Macondo was a village of twenty adobe houses, built on the bank of a river of clear water that ran along a bed of polished stones, which were white and enormous, like
prehistoric eggs.”
19.”There were many problems in the world that could not be solved by a bullet.”
20.”She put her arm around his waist, and felt how his heart was pounding like an animal trying to escape from his chest.”
21.”It was a world of words–those that came out of the mouth and those that arrived through the mail–and in the end it seemed that all
of them had the same value.”
22.”He was not a man of many words, but he was a man of action.”
23.”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 excitement and
disappointment, doubt and revelation, to such an extreme that no one knew for certain where the limits of reality lay.”
24.”His voice was like a jet of dark water bursting from a still pond.”
25.”The past was still too close to him for him to belong to the present.”
26.”The world was so sad that it had to invent laughter.”
27.”They were both happy, but they both knew that the happiness would not last forever. Everything eventually ended.”
28.”He had never been able to discover the real reason why they had never been able to be happy together.”
29.”Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice.”
30.”He dug so deeply into her sentiments that in search of interest he found love, because by trying to make her love him he ended up falling in love with her.”
31.”It was as if the earth under Macondo were shaking, but it was not an earthquake.”
32.”There is no greater glory than to die for love.”
33.”She looked at him in surprise, as if she had discovered that he was a completely different man from the one she had known until then.”
