t takes a lot of heart to wait. It takes a kind of crazy, unwavering, blindly quixotic and bordering-on-irrational faith to wait. And that is the reason we are invariably moved by stories of individuals who have that kind of insane, beautiful heart. Take, for example, the story of Florentino Ariza in Gabriel García Márquez’s . Ariza falls in love with Fermina Daza when he spots her through an open window, but her father separates them and sees her married to someone else. That marriage lasts 50
