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“ Memories come back, pressing in on you, like ghost faces in the darkness pushing up the glass, trying to get into the lit room. ”

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There is always that choice, the light or the dark

~ Julia Green

But you still need the two: the dark and the light. You can't see one without the other.

~ Julia Green

What i realise now is that the story actually did have a happy ending: the children came back. In spite of everything the adults did to them, the children found their own way home, their pockets full of precious stones and pearls that gleamed and shone in the light.

~ Julia Green

That's what memory is like: layers, one overlapping another, and compacting down the way old leaves slowly crumble and turn to a rich peaty soil, nourishing the new things that will grow. It's why it's important, remembering things. It's why it matters, when the memories aren't there, and no one fills in the gaps for you.

~ Julia Green