Enrique de Hériz

Serena has spent her life fighting fiction the way good soldiers fight__ntent on detecting its presence, harassing it, suppressing it__ut I have to find a way to show her she__ mistaken her enemy, to explain to her that whoever suppresses fiction destroys life, and that everything disappears with it, all love, all desire. If the past is an invention, it__ not such a big deal. After all, the future__ an invention, and no one finds that hard to accept.

_nostalgia is, by definition, the least authentic of all feelings.

A law of life: at the precise instant when someone tells a truth, that truth is transformed into a story

We don__ even survive in the memories of the living. Science has destroyed that myth. Whenever we remember something, what we__e doing is remembering the last time we remembered it; our memory doesn__ go back to the original notch, the first one was cut, but to the last one. Human memory is virtual, like that of a computer. When we open a file we__e not opening it as it was when we first created it, but as it was the last time we used it. It is called hypercathexis and is our brain__ most sophisticated recourse when it comes to confronting pain.