The past is a candle at great distance: too close to let you quit, too far to comfort you.
“Everyone has two memories. The one you can tell and the one that is stuck to the underside of that, the dark, tarry smear of what happened.”
“She believes in will. It is so frail and delicate at night that she cant even imagine the next morning, but it is so wide and binding by the middle of the next day that she cannot even remember the...”
“It was nostalgic in that painful way nostalgia could be”
“We cannot escape the longing, no matter what life we choose. Were either longing for people, places or times gone by, which are essentially the same things: memories. And, whether or not we travel,...”
“What seems real one moment is fiction the nextand gone out of existence the moment after that.Nostalgia is the greatest enemy of truth,and change our only constancy.”
