May Day Eve and Other Stories Quotes

“The world was always going to be remade by people who were too busy to remake themselves first and who left the world twice as miserable as before.”
― Nick Joaquín, May Day Eve and Other Stories

“BUT, alas, the heart forgets; the heart is distracted; and Maytime passes; summer ends; the storms break over the rot-ripe orchards and the heart grows old; while the hours, the days, the months, and the years pile up and pile up, till the mind becomes too crowded, too confused: dust gathers in it; cobwebs multiply; the walls darken and fall into ruin and decay; the memory perishes...”
― Nick Joaquín, May Day Eve and Other Stories

“[...] the prizing of the body, not as a minute to possess, in the rush of time, but as a being to love, in the light of eternity. Was this not the awful fate that lovers did not know they embraced when they cried For ever and ever?”
― Nick Joaquín, May Day Eve and Other Stories