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: โOnly God knows how much I loved you
Gabriel Garcia MarquezFor they had lived together long enough to know that love was always love, anytime and anyplace, but it was more solid the closer it came to death.
Gabriel Garcia MarquezBut that afternoon he asked himself, with his infinite capacity for illusion, if such pitiless indifference might not be a subterfuge for hiding the torments of love.
Gabriel Garcia MarquezWhat does he say?' he asked. 'Heโs very sad,โ รrsula answered, โbecause he thinks that youโre going to die.' 'Tell him,' the colonel said, smiling, 'that a person doesnโt die when he should but when he can.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez