Vampire in Love Quotes

“I remember always thinking that life itself doesn’t actually exist, because if no one tells it as a story or turns it into a narrative, life is merely something that happens, nothing more. To understand life, you have to tell it, even if only to yourself. This doesn’t mean that a story can make life comprehensible, because there are always gaps in any narrative, whatever sutures or remedies you might try to apply. That is why a narrative only restores life in fragmentary form.”
― Enrique Vila-Matas, Vampire in Love

“if it weren’t for the fact, ladies and gentlemen, that I never go to the movies. Indeed, I’ve never even been inside a cinema, not even when I was a child, when it was fashionable to spend Sundays in one of those dark places.”
― Enrique Vila-Matas, Vampire in Love