Salonee

“Things, once gone, can’t be put back; he knew that now. A punch, once delivered, can’t be withdrawn. Words, once spoken, can’t be unsaid. We may go on as if nothing has been lost, nothing done, nothing said; we may claim to forget it all; but our innermost core doesn’t forget, because we have been changed for ever.”
― Julian Barnes

“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.”
― George Orwell, 1984

“If you live long enough you realise that every proven fact is later disproved and then proven again.”
― Matt Haig, How to Stop Time

“It wasn’t just the loss of people I had known but also the loss of myself. The loss of who I had been when I had been with them.”
― Matt Haig, How to Stop Time