Love-in-the-time-of-cholera Quote by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

He was still too young to know that the heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good, and that thanks to this artifice…

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“He walked around all the useless things in the courtyard and touched them with his hands; for some reason, he wished that these would…

— Andrei Platonov

“I envied his inspiration, his optimism in focusing back on the painful but glorious days. They were caring days, when we knew what we…

— Bao Ninh

“[S]he felt an irresistible longing to begin life with him over again so that they could say what they had left unsaid and do…

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“In trying to escape the fatality of memory, he discovered with an immense sadness that pursuing the past inevitably only leads to greater loss.”

— Richard Flanagan

“No one had asked about his life, the years aboard ship. As a child she had been fascinated by the way he would come…

— Lakambini A. Sitoy

“He felt like his own heart might stop beating just from acknowledging the concept. The sadness, the sorrow, and the loss, they were living…

— Adam P. Knave

“He felt, sometimes, like the keeper of memories-the one who had to facilitate that invisible transition between the way it used to be and…

— Jodi Picoult

“... he had understood that memory was a place, a real place that one could visit, and that to spend a few moments among…

— Paul Auster

“He watched the scene and thought of life; and (as always happened when he thought of life) he became sad. A gentle melancholy took…

— James Joyce

“He looked back on his past life, which had been so wretched. How had he been able to bear that terrible burden? He had…

— Leo Tolstoy