My most important problem was destroying the lines of demarcation that separate what seems real from what seems fantastic.

I have waited for this opportunity for more than half a century, to repeat to you once again my vow of eternal fidelity and everlasting love.

opened the door a crack wide enough for the entire world to pass through .

He could not understand why he had needed so many words to explain what he felt in war because one was enough: fear. ~Jose Aracadio Segundo Buendia After the second banana slaughter

He thought that the world would make more rapid progress without the burden of old people.

It is not that the girl is unfit for everything, it is that she is not of this world.

Jose Palacios, his oldest servant, found him floating naked with his eyes open in the purifying waters of his bath and thought he had drowned.