Amaranta Quotes About Love

Finally, after being consumed by jealousy a bitterness towards love is developed, and life of solitude follows. Amaranta’s stubbornness and inability of reciprocating love eventually lead her to expect death. She finds herself sewing and tending to her childhood home after her last rejection to Colonel Gerineldo Márquez years before, in a way he marked the end to an era in which she could still redeem her past actions and find love with those around her. As Amaranta feels herself approach the end to her life, she remains holding on to her hatred towards Rebeca, so much so that she begs God to let her die after her. Death ends up presenting herself to Amaranta, and warns her of the remaining time she has left. Amaranta, frantic to see Rebeca

She worked out the plan with such hatred that it made her tremble to think about the scheme, which she would have carried out in exactly the same way if it had been done out of love[.]” (Garcia Marquez 278). By comparing the actions her hatred produces to those of one that would be driven by love, accentuates how Amaranta is unable to show love. All her hatred towards Rebeca only furthers her solitude in life as she is unable to move on past Pietro’s death and find love and companionship for herself. Although she is not physically alone, her emotions and actions have left her to experience a solitude that can only be sated through a romantic relationship. Even as her time comes to an end, Amaranta is once again alone and continues to show her inability to reconcile with her sister. Besides having lived a life in solitude, Amaranta later realizes that her decisions are what caused her to live in a way that alienated her from the rest of the community. Whereas the rest of the Buendia’s find some form of love they all inevitably end up living a life of

It pained her not to have had that revelation many years before when it had still been possible to purify memories and reconstruct the universe under a new light and evoke without trembling Pietro Crespi’s smell of lavender at dusk and rescue Rebeca from her slough of misery, not out of hatred or out of love but because of the measureless understanding of solitude.” (Garcia Marquez 279). Only after truly experience solitude herself does Amaranta understand what it is those she affected had felt due to her ineptitude and bitterness towards love. However at this point she is too late and discovers how solitude manifests itself when you least expect it, or in this case you only realize how alone you are after reflecting upon all you've done. This retrospect into her life and actions allowed her to truly understand how solitude began following her as soon as she discarded her love for her sister in favour of jealousy. Her last thoughts on Macondo further illustrate how at her time of death she left the world as she had come in it,