One Hundred Years of Solitude

final opinion:

            These   are not times   to  go

around thinking about
weddings.

            That    opinion,    which   Úrsula

understood only some months
later, was the only sincere
one that Aureliano could
express at that moment, not
only with respect to marriage,
but to anything that was not
war. He himself, facing a
firing squad, would not