“In the beginning, when the world was new and nothing had a name, my father took me to see the ice.”
“[My father] loved me tenderly and shyly from a distance, and later on took a naive pride in seeing my name in print.”
“My name is Sabastian. I had a father, but he is dead. I had a mother, but she is dead to me. I have a brother, and I will Bind him to me. I have a sister, and I will teach her to love me. My name is Sabastain, and I am going to burn down the world”
“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...”
“New York had all the iridescence of the beginning of the world.”
“That was when the world wasn't so big and I could see everywhere. It was when my father was a hero and not a human.”