“In the beginning, when the world was new and nothing had a name, my father took me to see the ice.”

“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...”

“This was when I heard that the first symptom of old age is when you begin to resemble your father.”

“A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.”

“My God, if I had a heart, I would write my hate on ice, and wait for the sun to show.”

“...The girl raised her eyes to see who was passing by the window, and that casual glance was the beginning of a cataclysm of love that still had not ended half a century later.”

“When I stand and contemplate my fate and see the path along which you have led me, I reach my end, for artless I surrendered to one who is my undoing and my end.”