Jaime Andrés Rivera > Jaime 's Quotes

“What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.”
― Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.”
― Horace Walpole

“A reader of mine is a deluxe reader, not because I’m so great but because in order to get to me you have to take a path through literature, not through some books bought out of curiosity at the bookstore. A reader of mine has to have read other things.”
― César Aira

“It's better to face madness with a plan than to sit still and let it take you in pieces.”
― Josh Malerman, Bird Box

“«Parecían dos niños», me dijo. Y esa reflexión la asustó, pues siempre había pensado que sólo los niños son capaces de todo.”
― Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez, Chronicle of a Death Foretold

“After several trips across the Andes, the pattern of the flora was gradually coming into focus. This to me was the great revelation of botany. When I knew nothing of plants, I experienced a forest only as a tangle of forms, shapes, and colors without meaning or depth, beautiful when taken as a whole but ultimately incomprehensible and exotic. Now the components of the mosaic had names, the names implied relationships, and the relationships resonated with significance.”
― Wade Davis

“Let the music speak to us of tonight, in a happier language than our own.”
― Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White

“Listening to South Korean television was like looking in the mirror for the first time in your life and realizing you were unattractive. North Koreans were always told theirs was the proudest country in the world, but the rest of the world considered it a pathetic, bankrupt regime.”
― Barbara Demick

“Love lights more fires than hate extinguishes.”
― Ella Wheeler Wilcox