It is incredible how one can be happy for so many years in the midst of so many squabbles, so many problems, damn it, and not really know if it was l… - Gabriel García Márquez

What is essential, therefore, is not that you no longer believe, but that God continues to believe in you.

He recognized her despite the uproar, through his tears of unrepeatable sorrow at dying without her, and he looked at her for the last and final time with eyes more luminous, more grief-stricken, more grateful than she had ever seen them in half a century of a shared life, and he managed to say to her with his last breath: “Only God knows how much I loved you

"You're a great man, General, greater than anyone," she told him. "But love is still too big for you."