I promise this is the last one! I'm just gonna give you some quotes to chew on!
The first one:
“Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendia was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice.”
Note: I rather like this guy's writing style. He does this all the time, he mentions an incident that will happen, refers to it every 20-30 pages or so, but doesn't explain it for 100 or so pages. It's rather intriguing.
“She would put handfuls of earth in her pockets, and ate them in small bits without being seen…”
Told you. She eats dirt.
“Although she was already a hundred years old and on the point of going blind from cataracts, she still had her physical dynamism, her integrity of character, and her mental balance intact.”
Referring to Ursula. Amazing character.
“ ‘Look at the mess we’ve got ourselves into,’ Colonel Aureliano Buendia said at that time, ‘just because we invited a gringo to eat some bananas.’”
Haha. Love this guy.
“ ‘Sit down,’ she told her. ‘I don’t need cards to tell the future of a Buendia.’ Meme did not know and never would that the centenarian witch was her great-grandmother.”
“ ‘Just like Aureliano,’ Ursula exclaimed. ‘It’s as if the world were repeating itself.’”
“It had never occurred to him until then to think that literature was the best plaything that had ever been invented to make fun of people.”
“Tormented by the certainty that he was his wife’s brother, Aureliano ran out to the parish house to search through the moldy and moth-eaten archives for some clue to his parentage.”
Turns out, she's his aunt. Now think that through.
And finally, the last quote, still amazing:
“Aureliano Babilonia would finish deciphering the parchments, and that everything written on them was unrepeatable since time immemorial and forever more, because races condemned to one hundred years of solitude did not have a second opportunity on earth.”
Awesome. Now read it.
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