The Heart’s Memory
“He was still too young to know that the heart’s memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good, and that thanks to this artifice we manage to endure the burden of the past. But when he stood at the railing of the ship and saw the motionless buzzards on the roofs, the washing of the poor hung out to dry on balconies, only then did he understand to what extent he had been an easy victim to the charitable deceptions of nostalgia.”
— Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera