38 Quotes by Alejandro Zambra

I knew little, but at least I knew that: no one could speak for someone else. That although we might want to tell other people’s stories, we always end up telling our own.

What’s the purpose of being with someone if they don’t change your life? She said that, and Julio was present when she said it: that life only had purpose if you found someone who changed it, who destroyed your life.

Es de noche, siempre es de noche al final de los textos.

That’s what life consists of, I’m afraid: erasing and being erased.

Perhaps he has always limited himself to following images: he hasn’t made decisions, hasn’t won or lost, he has just let himself be drawn in by certain images, and he followed them, without fear or courage, until he got close to them or shut them out.

It would be better to close the book, close the books, and to face, all at once, not life, which is very big, but the fragile armor of the present.

Por amor a las coincidencias.

He wanted to put his memories into a bag and carry them until the weight destroyed his back.

Everyone gets erased – life consists of meeting people whom first you love and then you erase – but you can’t erase children, you can’t erase parents.