First Lines: Gabriel García Márquez - Living to Tell the Tale

My mother asked me to go with her to sell the house.

First Lines: Gabriel García Márquez - Love in the Time of Cholera

It was inevitable: the scent of bitter almonds always reminded him of the fate of unrequited love.

First Lines: Gabriel García Márquez - One Hundred Years of Solitude

Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Colonel Aureliano Buendía was to remember that distant afternoon when his father took him to discover ice.