“A person is from wherever they feel best, and roots are for plants. Everyone knows that, don't they?” — Juan Gabriel Vásquez Gardening Copy Share Image
“the kind of sadness we tolerate because it appears at happy moments” — Juan Gabriel Vásquez Happiness 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… — Juan Gabriel Vásquez Books 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… — Juan Gabriel Vásquez Intentions 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… — Juan Gabriel Vásquez Bad news Copy Share Image
“creature with imprecise contours, a sort of deceitful, dishonest amoeba that can’t be investigated, for, looking for it again under the microscope,… — Juan Gabriel Vásquez Imprecise 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… — Juan Gabriel Vásquez Adolescence 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,… — Juan Gabriel Vásquez Doubting Copy Share Image
“I read somewhere that a man should tell the story of his life at the age of forty, and this deadline is… — Juan Gabriel Vásquez Birthday 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… — Juan Gabriel Vásquez Exercising 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… — Juan Gabriel Vásquez Memory Copy Share Image
“Experience, or what we call experience, is not the inventory of our pains, but rather the learned sympathy towards the pain of… — Juan Gabriel Vásquez Compassion Copy Share Image
“So you fell out of the sky, too?" the Little Prince asked the pilot who tells the story, and I thought yes,… — Juan Gabriel Vásquez Fall 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… — Juan Gabriel Vásquez Darkness 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… — Juan Gabriel Vásquez Communication Copy Share Image
