“You know what, it's not your life, it's life. Life is bigger than you, if you can imagine that. Life isn't something that you possess, it's something that you take part in and witness.”
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“..think back through your own life, to when you were eight or nine years old. See if the memories you have are the ones you might expect. or if they are fragments, dislocated moments, a smell here, a feeling there. The unlikeliest conversations and places. We don't choose what we keep - not at that age. Not ever, really.”
― The Shock of the Fall
― The Shock of the Fall
“But one thing I’ve learnt about people, is that they can always surprise you.”
― The Shock of the Fall
― The Shock of the Fall
“Try and remember that if you can. Hold onto it through everything else that happens in life, through all the things that might make you want to forget - keep it safe somewhere.”
― The Shock of the Fall
― The Shock of the Fall
“Thinking about the past is like digging up graves”
― The Shock of the Fall
― The Shock of the Fall
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