One Hundred Years of Solitude

the rebel forces did not
surrender Riohacha. The
visits stopped. Amaranta shut
herself up to weep,
overwhelmed by a feeling of
guilt similar to the one that
had tormented her when
Remedios died, as if once
more her careless words had
been responsible for a death.
Her mother consoled her. She
inured her that Colonel
Aureliano Buendía would do
something to prevent the