“Ceasing to believe caused a permanent scar in the place where one's faith had been, making it impossible to forget.”

“No: that fear had been inside him for manyyears, it had lived with him, it had been another shadow cast over hisown shadow ever since the night he awoke, shaken by a bad dream,and realized that death was not only a permanent probability, as hehad always believed, but an immediate reality.”

“and realized that death was not only a permanent probability, as he had always believed, but an immediate reality.”

“Then he made one last effort to search in his heart for the place where his affection had rotted away, and he could not find it.”

“In the end, it is impossible not to become what others believe you are.”

“literature was the best plaything that had ever been invented to make fun of people.”

“In that Macondo forgotten even by the birds, where the dust and the heat had become so strong that it was difficult to breathe, secluded by solitude and love and by the solitude of love in a house where it was almost impossible to sleep because of the noise of the red ants, Aureliano, and Amaranta Úrsula were the only happy beings, and the most happy on the face of the earth.”