# Quote — Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Living to Tell the Tale

> Before adolescence, memory is more interested in the future than the past...

- Author: [Gabriel Garcia Marquez](https://www.leafyquotes.com/gabriel-garcia-marquez.md)
- Book: [Living to Tell the Tale](https://www.leafyquotes.com/gabriel-garcia-marquez/living-to-tell-the-tale.md)
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Gabriel_Garc%C3%ADa_M%C3%A1rquez#Living_to_Tell_the_Tale_(2002)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/gabriel-garcia-marquez/living-to-tell-the-tale/before-adolescence-memory

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> … nothing was easy, least of all surviving Sunday afternoons without love.

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> Children's lies are signs of great talent.

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