Status Updates From Corazón tan blanco

“lovers always feel that their meeting took place too late, as if the amount of time occupied by their passion was never enough or, in retrospect, never long enough (the present is untrustworthy), or perhaps they can’t bear the fact that once there was no passion between them, not even a hint of it, while the two of them were in the world, swept along by its most turbulent currents, and yet with…”

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I’ve just started this book but I love this introduction.

“Any promise of a conventionally linear narrative is immediately shattered, and we are already made aware, subliminally, of one of the
novel’s major themes: the evanescence of human experience, the fact that everything belongs to the past as soon as it has happened, the fact that ‘everything is constantly in the process of being lost’.”