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“Yet are you so certain, good mistress, you wish to be free of this mist? Is it not better some things remain hidden from our minds?"
"It may be for some, father, but not for us. Axl and I wish to have again the happy moments we shared together. To be robbed of them is as if a thief came in the night and took what's most precious from us."
"Yet the mist covers all memories, the bad as well as the good. Isn't that so, mistress?"
"We'll have the bad ones come back too, even if they make us weep or shake with anger. For isn't it the life we've shared?”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, The Buried Giant

“Even before you touched me, I belonged to you; all you had to do was look at me.”
― Louise Glück

“You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep Spring from coming.”
― Pablo Neruda

“At first I saw you everywhere.
Now only in certain things,
at longer intervals.”
― Louise Glück