One Hundred Years of Solitude

Fernanda, on the other hand, looked for it in vain along the paths of her everyday itinerary without knowing that the search for lost things is hindered by routine habits and that is why it is so difficult to finde them.P.256...and she asked God, without fear, if he really believed that people were made of iron in order to bear so many troubles and mortifications....

And normality was precisely the most fearful part of that infinite war: NOTHING EVER HAPPENED.p.98:The Liberals were determined to go to war....The conservatives, on the other hand, who had received their power directly from God, proposed the establishment of public oder and family morality.p. 174-175:When he said it he did not know that it was easier to start a war than to end one.... ...He was never a greater soldier than at that time. The certainty that he was finally fighting for his own liberation and not for abstract ideals, for slogans that politician could twist left and right according to the circumstances, filled him with an ardent enthusiasm. Colonel GM, who fought for defeat with as much conviction and loyalty as he had previously fought for victory.P.241there's a lot of cooking, a lot of sweeping, a lot of suffering over little things beyond what you think.

Arcadio是一个不折不扣的悲剧人物，生母身为娼妇，父亲却自他出生起便离家私奔的私生子，在这个自带光环的家族中未免算是另类，他叛逆，他冷酷，而在他的内心深处也有爱和温柔。在这一章里，除了他，别人都是配角。他追随关心教导他的叔叔Aureliano投身革命，身为自由党的他却利用职位之便肆意妄为，被祖母Ursula痛骂；意图与不相识的生母Pilar Ternera行苟且之事，生母却散尽毕生积蓄为其找到如意爱人诞下子嗣；党派战争中不听叔叔的劝告顽强抵抗最后被敌军俘虏杀害，临刑前顿悟那些人生中的牵挂与真爱。当看到他遗言要用祖母的名字命名自己的女儿的时候，在开往武汉的高铁上我顿时忍不住泪流满面，不管当初他做过多少违背道德和良心的蠢事，至少到最后他并没有给这个家族丢脸。

The house became full of love. Aurelian expressed it in poetry that had no beginning or end. He would write it on the harsh pieces of parchment that Melquiades gave him, on the bathroom walls, on the skin of his arms, and in all of it Remedios would appear transfigured: Remedies in the soporific air of two in the afternoon, Remedios in the soft breath of the roses, Remedios in the water-clock secrets of the moths, Remedoes in the steaming morning bread, Remedios everywhere and Remedios forever.