“Childhood doesn’t exist for children; however, for adults childhood is that former country we lost one day and which we futilely seek to recover by inhabiting it with diffuse or nonexistent memories, which in general are nothing but shadows of other dreams.” ChildhoodMemoryNostalgiaAdulthood Book:La forma de las ruinas Source: La forma de las ruinas
“Looking at him, nobody would ever have imagined that inside his briefcase were the bones of Jorge Eliecer Gaitan. Sometimes I went with him, a boy hand in hand with his father, and my father would then have a living boy in one hand and a briefcase of dead bones in the other. Bones, furthermore, for which anyone would have killed right there.” FatherHistoryChildhoodBonesWeirdGaitan Book:La forma de las ruinas Source: La forma de las ruinas