Lost in the solitude of his immense power, he began to lose direction.

Aureliano not only understood by then, he also lived his brother’s experiences as something of his own, for on one occasion when the latter was explaining in great detail the mechanism of love, he interrupted him to ask: “What does it feel like?” José Arcadio gave an immediate reply: “It’s like an earthquake.

Fatality makes us invisible.

Love becomes greater and nobler in calamity.

"Things have a life of their own," the gypsy proclaimed with a harsh accent. "It's simply a matter of waking up their souls."

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

But he could not renounce his infinite capacity for illusion at the very moment he needed it most... he saw fireflies where there were none.