One hundred years of solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

One hundred years of solitude is novel written by Gabriel Garcia Marquez first published in Spanish in 1967.
Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, General Aureliano Buendia was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice.” (Opening words of novel)
“The world was so recent that many things lacked names, and in order to indicate them it was necessary to point.”
“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 the bullet that entered his back and shattered his chest had been directed by a wrong interpretation of the cards.”
“He dug so deeply into her sentiments that in search of interest he found love, because by trying to make her love him he ended up falling in love with her.”
“The only difference today between Liberals and Conservatives is that the Liberals go to mass at five o'clock and the Conservatives at eight.”
“There is always something left to love.”
“Then he made one last effort to search in his heart for the place where his affection had rotted away, and he could not find it.”
“and both of them remained floating in an empty universe where the only everyday & eternal reality was love...”
“He [Aureliano II ] 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 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. (last words of novel)”