“Forgetting isn't enough. You can paddle away from the memories and think they are gone. But they will keep floating back, again and again and agian. They circle you, like sharks. Until, unless, something, someone? Can do more than just cover the wound. ”
― Story of a Girl
― Story of a Girl
“Nothing is ever really lost to us as long as we remember it.”
― The Story Girl
― The Story Girl
“Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.”
― Kafka on the Shore
― Kafka on the Shore
“He was still too young to know that the heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good, and that thanks to this artifice we manage to endure the burden of the past.”
― Love in the Time of Cholera
― Love in the Time of Cholera
Hj’s 2025 Year in Books
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