“She was one of those people who are irrevocably, incurably honest and therefore both inflexible and vulnerable at the same time.”

“Love is an incurable disease. In love, there is permanent suffering. Those who love and those who are happy are not the same.”

“It seems to be a law of nature, inflexible and inexorable, that those who will not risk cannot win.”

“the people who can finish and finish at the same pace or stronger than when they started, those are the ones who are going to succeed; those are the ones who are going to be great.”

“Both described at the same time how it was always March there and always Monday, and then they understood that José Arcadio Buendía was not as crazy as the family said, but that he was the only one who had enough lucidity to sense the truth of the fact that time also stumbled and had accidents and could therefore splinter and leave an eternalized fragment in a room.”

“I found myself both touched and irritated by the discovery that she was vulnerable.”