"Both described at the same time how..." - Quote by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Both described at the same time how it was always March there and always Monday, and then they understood that José Arcadio Buendía was not as crazy as the family said, but that he was the only one who had enough lucidity to sense the truth of the fact that time also stumbled and had accidents and could therefore splinter and leave an eternalized fragment in a room.
More by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
“A great commotion immobilized her in her center of gravity, planted her in her place, and her defensive will was demolished by the irresistible anxiety to discover what the orange bells and whistles and the invisible globes on the other side of death were like.”
“She would not shed a tear, she would not waste the rest of her years simmering in the maggot broth of memory.”
“Then the writing became so fluid that I sometimes felt as if I were writing for the sheer pleasure of telling a story, which may be the human condition that most resembles levitation.”
More on Time
“Human existence basically is──a never to be completed imperfect tense.”
“He is rich who owns the day, and no one owns the day who allows it to be invaded with fret and anxiety.”
“Remember that man lives only in the present, in this fleeting instant; all the rest of his life is either past and gone, or not yet revealed.”