Konstantina

“...the nostalgia for things that weren't yet lost.”
― Juan Gabriel Vásquez, The Sound of Things Falling

“So you fell out of the sky, too?" the Little Prince asked the pilot who tells the story, and I thought yes, I'd fallen out of the sky, too, but there was no possible testimony of my fall, there was no black box that anybody could consult, nor was there any black box of Ricardo Laverde's fall, human lives don't have these technological luxuries to fall back on.”
― Juan Gabriel Vásquez, The Sound of Things Falling

“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 wears down our muscles.”
― Juan Gabriel Vásquez, The Sound of Things Falling

“In the darkness of the bedroom I thought of that, although thinking in the darkness is not advisable: things seem bigger or more serious in the darkness, illnesses more destructive, the presence of evil closer, indifference more intense, solitude more profound.”
― Juan Gabriel Vásquez, The Sound of Things Falling