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

Tell him yes. Even if you are dying of fear, even if you are sorry later, because whatever you do, you will be sorry all the rest of your life if you say no.

People spend a lifetime thinking abouthow they would really like to live. I asked my friends and no one seems to know very clearly. To me, it's very clear now. I wish my life could have been like the years when I was writing 'Love in the Time of Cholera.'

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.

Your first realization when you become an important person is that all day and all night, whatever the circumstances, people want to hear you talk about yourself.

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

The only Virgos left in the world are people like you who were born in August.