The Most Shared Quote From One Hundred Years Of Solitude

Appearing only pages from the end of "One Hundred Years of Solitude," Gabriel García Márquez wrote, "It's enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment." The words are spoken by a priest to one of the many characters named Aureliano Buendía, who has accused the priest of not believing one of the earlier tales told in the book.

Book Analysis believes Márquez used this line in irony, a nod to the theme that the "inhabitants were nothing more than a dream or perception whose fate has already [been] preordained."

When pulled out of the text, romantics have adopted the quote as a vow of love between two partners, with memes showing up on Pinterest, Twitter, and in articles about love quotes, among other places. The sentiment is not far off from "One Hundred Years of Solitude," since Aureliano was in love with Ursula, and only a few pages earlier, Márquez wrote of the couple, saying ". . . both of them remained floating in an empty universe where the only everyday and eternal reality was love."