He was still too young to know that the heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good, and that thanks to this artifice we manage to endure the burden of the past.
Gabriel Garcia MarquezAureliano not only understood by then, he also lived his brotherโs experiences as something of his own, for on one occasion when the latter was explaining in great detail the mechanism of love, he interrupted him to ask: โWhat does it feel like?โ Josรฉ Arcadio gave an immediate reply: โItโs like an earthquake.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez