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“Adulthood brings with it the pernicious illusion of control, and perhaps even depends on it. I mean that mirage of dominion over our own life that allows us to feel like adults, for we associate maturity with autonomy, the sovereign right to determine what is going to happen to us next. Disillusion comes sooner or later, but it always comes, it doesn’t miss an appointment, it never has.”
― 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

“Don’t you want to be alive before you die?”
― Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See

“Lo importante en nuestra sociedad no es lo que pasa, sino quién cuenta lo que pasa.”
― Juan Gabriel Vásquez, Las reputaciones