“Always tell what you feel. Do what you think...”

“No matter what you do this year or in the next hundred, you will be dead forever.”

“Why do you insist on talking about what does not exist?”

“What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.”

“Well," Aureliano said. "Tell me what it is."Pilar Ternera bit her lips with a sad smile."That you would be good in a war," she said. "Where you put your eye, you put your bullet.”

“Tell him yes. Even if you are dying of fear, even if you are sorry later, because whatever you do, you will be sorry all the rest of your life if you say no.”

“The truth is I'm getting old, I said. We already are old, she said with a sigh. What happens is that you don't feel it on the inside, but from the outside everybody can see it.”