One Hundred Years of Solitude

been determined by the gall
of her bitterness, as everyone
had thought, but that both
actions had been a mortal
struggle between a
measureless love and an
invincible cowardice, and that
the irrational fear that
Amaranta had always had of
her own tormented heart had
triumphed in the end. It was
during that time that Úrsula,
began to speak Rebecas
name, bringing back the