He said that people who loved [animals] to excess were capable of the worst cruelties toward human beings. He said that dogs were not loyal but servile, that cats were opportunists and traitors, that peacocks were heralds of death, that macaws were simply decorative annoyances, that rabbits fomented greed, that monkeys carried the fever of lust, and that roosters were damned because they had been complicit in the three denials of Christ.

The world is divided into those who screw and those who do not. He distrusted those who did not—when they strayed form the straight and narrow it was something so unusual for them that they bragged about love as if they had just invented it.

Many years later, in front of the firing squad, colonel Aureliano Buendía would remember that distant afternoon his father took him to see ice.

A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.

She likes to try everything, out of curiosity, but she'll be sorry if she isn't guided by her heart.

we had made love without love, half-dressed most of the time and always in the dark so we could imagine ourselves as better than we were.

The interpretation of our reality through patterns not our own, serves only to make us ever more unknown, ever less free, ever more solitary.