“Crazy people are not crazy if one accepts their reasoning.”

“They had to isolate her so that she would not drive the rest of the madwomen crazy.”

“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.”

“Life had already given him sufficient reasons for knowing that no defeat was the final one.”

“I must warn you that the books I like are not necessarily the ones I think are the best. I like them for various reasons not always easy to explain.”

“The people one loves should take all their things with them when they die.”

“One can be in love with several people at the same time, feel the sorrow with each, and not betray any of them.”