Joe M

“The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.”
― L.P. Hartley, The Go-Between

“I think it is all a matter of love; the more you love a memory the stronger and stranger it becomes”
― Vladimir Nabokov

“For I knew I would not be always young, and that summer does not last forever either, nor even autumn, my mean soul told me so.”
― Samuel Beckett, First Love and Other Novellas

“Some people belong entirely to others… They have not a day, not an hour to call their own, so completely do they give themselves to others. This is true even in matters of understanding. Some people know everything for others and nothing for themselves.”
― Baltasar Gracián, The Art of Worldly Wisdom