Colombia Quote by Gabriel García Márquez

Many years later, in front of the firing squad, colonel Aureliano Buendía would remember that distant afternoon his father took him to see ice.

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“Colonel Aureliano Buendia smiled at her the same way as when he had first seen her with the bandage on that remote morning when…

— Gabriel García Márquez

“Your father sounds frightening," Trayton said. "He once made a general cry." "No." "I shit you not. The guy had to retire after that.…

— Jennifer Rardin

“It was not very long after this that there occurred the first of the mysterious events that rid us at last of the captain,…

— Robert Louis Stevenson

“He didn’t always tell his father when it happened, because the old man’s face turned mottled blue over his doublet, and unless Will got…

— Dorothy Dunnett

“Now he realized that somehow those who had served in France and elsewhere knew a world that couldn’t be shared. How could he tell…

— Charles Todd

“That was the one moment he would always remember. The unhappiest moment of a happy childhood. The empty desolation of being on the wrong…

— Jim Kelly

“The Ice Master was too injured and too exhausted to crawl any farther. Let whatever was going to happen to him happen now and…

— Dan Simmons

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— Frederick Forsyth

“I hadn't taken to the colonel, yet he had piqued my interest. You can be fascinated even by a tree frog if you watch…

— Umberto Eco

“Now the colonel seemed to grieve for his President again, because he said, “This world spits out a beautiful man like he was poison.”

— Denis Johnson

“We awoke to a fabulation of ice, the sun shining like a weapon, light rocketing off every surface except the surfaces of the Army's…

— Stephanie Vaughn