The Robber of Memories Quotes

“I remembered the choice awaiting travellers on arriving at the Underworld: to drink from the spring of Mnemosyne or from that of Lethe. And those who chose the former were awarded an eternity of peace and comfort, while those who wanted to forget – so as to be free of all memories of pains and terrors – were sent back to earth, so that they could learn again the lessons that sufferings bring.”
― Michael Jacobs, The Robber of Memories: A River Journey Through Colombia

“The older I got the more I appreciated the role of travel as a stimulus to memories, and the way in which journeys even to new places were somehow always awakening memories of places seen in an ever-receding past.”
― Michael Jacobs, The Robber of Memories: A River Journey Through Colombia