Why do you insist on talking about what does not exist?

The first of the line is tied to a tree and the last is being eaten by the ants .

What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.

If men gave birth, they'd be less inconsiderate.

Caribbean reality resembles the wildest imagination.

Crazy people are not crazy if one accepts their reasoning.

He sank into the rocking chair, the same one in which Rebecca had sat during the early days of the house to give embroidery lessons, and in which Amaranta had played Chinese checkers with Colonel Gerineldo Marquez, and in which Amarana Ursula had sewn the tiny clothing for the child, and in that flash of lucidity he became aware that he was unable to bear in his soul the crushing weight of so much past.