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

There had never been a death so foretold.

And again, as always, after so many years we were still in the same place we always were.

One can be in love with several people at the same time, feel the sorrow with each, and not betray any of them.

Life had already given him sufficient reasons for knowing that no defeat was the final one.

Dr Urbino did not agree: in his opinion a Liberal president was exactly the same as a Conservative president, but not as well dressed.

It was then that she realized that the yellow butterflies preceded the appearances of Mauricio Babilonia.