In all the houses keys to memorizing objects and feelings had been written. But the system demanded so much vigilance and moral strength that many succumbed to the spell of an imaginary reality, one invented by themselves, which was less practical for them but more comforting.
Gabriel Garcia MarquezOver the weekend the vultures got into the presidential palace by pecking through the screens on the balcony windows and the flapping of their wings stirred up the stagnant time inside, and at dawn on Monday the city awoke out of its lethargy of centuries with the warm, soft breeze of a great man dead and rotting grandeur.
Gabriel Garcia MarquezI became aware that the invincible power that has moved the world is unrequited, not happy, love.
Gabriel Garcia MarquezThe fact is that being seductive is an addiction that can never be satisfied.
Gabriel Garcia MarquezBoth described at the same time how it was always March there and always Monday, and then they understood that Josรฉ Arcadio Buendรญa 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.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez