But he could not renounce his infinite capacity for illusion at the very moment he needed it most... he saw fireflies where there were none.

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

Seeing him like this, dressed just for her in so patent a manner, she could not hold back the fiery blush that rose to her face. She was embarrassed when she greeted him, and he was more embarrassed by her embarrassment. The knowledge that they were behaving as if they were sweethearts was even more embarrassing, and the knowledge that they were both embarrassed embarrassed them so much that Captain Samaritano noticed it with a tremor of compassion.

An artisan without memories, whose only dream was to die of fatigue in the oblivion and misery of his little gold fishes.

Taught him the only thing he had to learn about love: that nobody teaches life anything.

The truth is that I know very few novelists who have been satisfied with the adaptation of their books for the screen.

Aureliano not only understood by then, he also lived his brother’s experiences as something of his own, for on one occasion when the latter was explaining in great detail the mechanism of love, he interrupted him to ask: “What does it feel like?” José Arcadio gave an immediate reply: “It’s like an earthquake.