Quotes by : Juan Gabriel Vásquez

I read somewhere that a man should tell the story of his life at the age of forty, and this deadline....

There is no more disastrous mania, no more dangerous whim, than the speculation over roads not taken.....

Where does the past go when it changes?

What the eye doesn't see, the heart doesn't grieve over.

Remembering tires a person out. this is something they don't teach us. Exercising one's memory is an....

The world's a scary place these days. Grandpa,, you've seen worse things, haven't you? Please tell me....

Adulthood brings with it the pernicious illusion of control, and perhaps even depends on it. I mean that....

...the nostalgia for things that weren't yet lost.

Experience, or what we call experience, is not the inventory of our pains, but rather the learned sympathy....

The saddest thing that can happen to a person is to find out their memories are lies.