I would not have traded the delights of my suffering for anything in the world.

Little by little, studying the infinite possibilities of a loss of memory, he realized that the day might come when things would be recognized by their inscriptions but that no one would remember their use.... At the beginning of the road into the swamp they put up a sign that said "Macondo" and another larger one on the main street that said "God exists".

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

nothing in this world was more difficult than love.

Take advantage of it now, while you are young, and suffer all you can, because these things don't last your whole life.

Why were you so old when we met? I answered with the truth: Age isn't how old you are but how old you feel.

In the beginning, when the world was new and nothing had a name, my father took me to see the ice.