What does he say?' he asked. 'He’s very sad,’ Úrsula answered, ‘because he thinks that you’re going to die.' 'Tell him,' the colonel said, smiling, '… - Gabriel García Márquez

Tell him,' the colonel said, smiling, 'that a person doesn’t die when he should but when he can.

She felt so old, so worn out, so far away from the best moments of her life that she even yearned for those that she remembered as the worst… Her heart of compressed ash, which had resisted the most telling blows of daily reality without strain, fell apart with the first waves of nostalgia. The need to feel sad was becoming a vice as the years eroded her. She became human in her solitude.

على الناس الذين يحبهم المرء أن يموتوا مع كل أشيائهم

لقد قال لها في أحد الأيام شيئا لم تستطع تصوره:إن المبتورين يحسون آلاما وخدرا ودغدغة في أرجلهم التي ماعادوا يمتلكونها. وهذا ماشعرت به هي من دونه.. كانت تشعر بوجوده حيث لم يعد له وجود.