“ With age comes acumen. With experience comes insight. ”
But it's funny how the memory works and how sometimes we just belive whatever we want.
~ Chris Bohjalian
And though some days it is very hard, I try not to live for the future. And I try not to dream of the past.
During the war, I promised the dead I would never forget them. I stared at them, barely able to move myself. Pretended I was one of them. To this day I can recall the light in the ruins.
She didn't care so much whether the world would ever forgive her people; but she did hope that someday, somehow, she would be able to forgive herself.