One Hundred Years of Solitude Quotes

“he had learned to think coldly so that inescapable memories would not touch any feeling.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, 100 Years of Solitude

“For a long time she kept on smelling Pietro Crespi’s lavender breath at dusk, but she had the strength not to succumb to delirium. Úrsula abandoned her. She did not even raise her eyes to pity her on the afternoon when Amaranta went into the kitchen and put her hand into the coals of the stove until it hurt her so much that she felt no more pain but instead smelled the pestilence of her own singed flesh. It was a stupid cure for her remorse. For several days she went about the house with her hand in a pot of egg whites, and when the burns healed it appeared as if the whites had also scarred over the sores on her heart. The only external trace that the tragedy left was the bandage of black gauze that she put on her burned hand and that she wore until her death.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude: Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez

“In cases where two characters are referred to by the exact same name (for instance, Aureliano Segundo’s son is also known as “José Arcadio”), we have added a roman numeral to the character’s name for the sake of clarity, even though that roman numeral does not appear in García Márquez’s book: the second”
― SparkNotes, 100 Years of Solitude

“...the secret of a good old age is simply an honorable pact with solitude."
--Musing of Col. Aureliano Buendía, a character in One Hundreds Years of Solitude”
― Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude: Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez