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

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

“What is essential, therefore, is not that you no longer believe, but that God continues to believe in you.”

“It is impossible to explain. But what I like most is to eat.”

“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.”

“He would wake for no reason in the middle of the night, and the memory of the self-absorbed love was revealed to him for what it was: a pitfall of happiness that he despised and desired at the same time, but from which it was impossible to escape.”

“Hildebranda had a universal conception of love, and she believed that whatever happened to one love affected all other loves throughout the world.”