“I don’t know when I started to realize that my country’s past was incomprehensible and obscure to me, a real shadowy terrain, nor can I remember the precise moment when all that i’d believed so trustworthy and predictable—the place I’d… — Juan Gabriel Vásquez Copy Share Image
“In the darkness of the bedroom I thought of that, although thinking in the darkness is not advisable: things seem bigger or more serious… — Juan Gabriel Vásquez Copy Share Image
“And I tell myself at the same time that we're terrible judges of the present moment, maybe because the present doesn't actually exist: all… — Juan Gabriel Vásquez Copy Share Image
“the kind of sadness we tolerate because it appears at happy moments” — Juan Gabriel Vásquez Copy Share Image
“they talked of intentions and projects, convinced, as only new lovers can be, that saying what you wanted was the same as saying who… — Juan Gabriel Vásquez Copy Share Image
“A person is from wherever they feel best, and roots are for plants. Everyone knows that, don't they?” — Juan Gabriel Vásquez Copy Share Image
“with all the bad news expunged? Mallarino had never been able to understand that: for him it was the indignation or rage or hatred… — Juan Gabriel Vásquez Copy Share Image
“Adulthood brings with it the pernicious illusion of control, and perhaps even depends on it. I mean that mirage of dominion over our own life that allows us to feel like adults, for we associate maturity with autonomy, the sovereign right to determine what is going to happen to us next. Disillusion comes sooner or later, but it always comes,… — Juan Gabriel Vásquez Copy Share
“creature with imprecise contours, a sort of deceitful, dishonest amoeba that can’t be investigated, for, looking for it again under the microscope, we find… — Juan Gabriel Vásquez Copy Share Image
“I don’t know when I started to realize that my country’s past was incomprehensible and obscure to me, a real shadowy terrain, nor can… — Juan Gabriel Vásquez Copy Share Image
“Remembering tires a person out. this is something they don't teach us. Exercising one's memory is an exhausting activity. It draws our energy and… — Juan Gabriel Vásquez Copy Share Image
“Now that so many years have passed, now that I remember with the benefit of an understanding I didn't then have, I think of… — Juan Gabriel Vásquez Copy Share Image
“The memory has a marvellous capacity to remember the forgotten, its existence and its stalking, and thus allow us to stay alert when we… — Juan Gabriel Vásquez Copy Share Image
