“ What we wish upon the future is very often the image of some lost, imagined past. ”
How quick and rushing life can sometimes seem, when at the same time it's so slow and sweet and everlasting.
~ Graham Swift
There has always been, for me, this other world, this second world to fall back on--a more reliable world in so far as it does not hide that its premise is illusion.
And books, she knew by then, were one of the necessities, the rocks of her life.
And though, indeed, it only happened once, it’s gone on happening, the way unique and momentous things do, for ever and ever, as long as there’s a memory for them to happen in …
