recent college graduate, going through my high school book collection. sometimes, when you're in high school, some lines in books mean the world. and then you grow up and realize you were a fucking idiot.

 

‘The world must be all fucked up…when men travel first class and literature goes as freight.’

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, page 368.

Her life was spent in weaving her shroud.

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, page 242.

‘a person doesn’t die when he should but when he can.’

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, page 227.

the devil had probably won his rebellion against God, and that he was the one who sat on the heavenly throne, without revealing his true identity in order to trap the unwary.

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, page 178.

it was easier to start a war than to end one.

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, page 164.

‘The best friend a person has…is one who has just died.’

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, page 161.

‘Watch out for your heart…You’re rotting alive.’

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, page 159.

In the center of the chalk circle that his aids would draw wherever he stopped, and which only he could enter, he would decide with brief orders that had no appeal the fate of the world.

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, page 159.

‘Or fighting, like you, for something that doesn’t have any meaning for anyone.’

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, page 133.

‘I’ve come to realize only just now that I’m fighting because of pride.’

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, page 133.