Garcia Marquez

"What did you expect?" he murmered. "Time passes."

"That's how it goes," Ursula said, "but not so much."

When she said it she realized that she was giving the same reply that Colonel Aureliano Buendia had given in his death cell, and one again she shuddered with the evidence that time was not passing, as she had just admitted, but that it was turning in a circle. (Gabriel Garcia Marquez, "100 Years of Solitude", p. 361)