Thus they went on
Thus they went on living in a reality that was slipping away, momentarily captured by words, but which would escape irremediably when they forgot the values of the written letters. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
One Hundred Years Of Solitude
Tell him,’ the colonel
Tell him,’ the colonel said, smiling, ‘that a person doesn’t die when he should but when he can. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The first of the
The first of the line is tied to a tree and the last is being eaten by the ants . Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Always remember that the
Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
In that Macondo forgotten
In that Macondo forgotten even by the birds, where the dust and the heat had become so strong that it was difficult to breathe, secluded by solitude and love and by the solitude of love in a house where it was almost impossible to sleep because of the noise of the red ants, Aureliano, and … Read more
Before reaching the final
Before reaching the final line, however, he had already understood that he would never leave that room, for it was foreseen that the city of mirrors (or mirages) would be wiped out by the wind and exiled from the memory of men at the precise moment when Aureliano Babilonia would finish deciphering the parchments, and … Read more
Both looked back then
Both looked back then on the wild revelry…and they lamented that it had cost them so much of their lives to find the paradise of shared solitude. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
He spent six hours
He spent six hours examining things, trying to find a difference from their appearance on the previous day in the hope of discovering in them some change that would reveal the passage of time. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
A person does not
A person does not belong to a place until there is someone dead under the ground. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Carmelia Montiel, a twenty-year-old
Carmelia Montiel, a twenty-year-old virgin, had just bathed in orange-blossom water and was strewing rosemary leaves on Pilar Ternera’s bed when the shot rang out. Aureliano José had been destined to find with her the happiness that Amaranta had denied him, to have seven children, and to die in her arms of old age, but … Read more