Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice...

At the beginning of the road into the swamp they put up a sign that said MACONDO and another larger one on the main street that said GOD EXISTS.

Eres buena, eres lista, eres importante.

- El amor debe ser algo que te haga perder la razón -susurró-. Algo que te ate para siempre a unos ojos, que no te deje respirar cuando no puedas mirarte en ellos...
-¿De verdad crees que existe un amor así? -preguntó, aturdida por sus palabras.
-Estoy seguro.

Science has eliminated distance.

Bad luck doesn't have any chinks in it. I was born a son of a bitch and I'm going to die a son of a bitch. - Captain Roque Carnicero