Just because someone does not love you as you want, it does not mean that you do not love with all his being.

In her final years she would still recall the trip that, with the perverse lucidity of nostalgia, became more and more recent in her memory.

He could not understand why he had needed so many words to explain what he felt in war because one was enough: fear. ~Jose Aracadio Segundo Buendia After the second banana slaughter

When I wake up," he said, "remind me that I'm going to marry her.

I don't have a method. All I do is read a lot, think a lot, and rewrite constantly. It's not a scientific thing.

Tell him,' the colonel said, smiling, 'that a person doesn’t die when he should but when he can.

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