It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.

In the end all books are written for your friends.

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.

She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.

Fatality makes us invisible.

Fernanda, on the other hand, looked for it in vain along the paths of her everyday itinerary without knowing that the search for lost things is hindered by routine habits and that is why it is so difficult to find them.

Jose Palacios, his oldest servant, found him floating naked with his eyes open in the purifying waters of his bath and thought he had drowned.