C A R Y L U N A

The Captain looked at Fermina Daza and saw on her eyelashes the first glimmer of wintry frost.  Then he looked at Florentino Ariza, his invincible power, his intrepid love, and he was overwhelmed by the belated suspicion  that it is life, more than death, that has no limits.

“And how long do you think we can keep up this goddamn coming and going?”  he asked

Florentino Ariza had kept his answer ready for fifty-three years, seven months, and eleven days and nights.

“Forever,”  he said.

~Garcia Marquez, Love in the Time of Cholera