“She sees only what’s gone, I see only what’s stayed the same. Her hair is no longer halfway down her back or pulled up in a French pleat; nowadays it is cut close to her skull and the grey is allowed to show.
Those peasanty frocks she used to wear have given way to cardigans and well-cut trousers. Some of the freckles I once loved are now closer to liver spots. But it’s still the eyes we look at, isn’t it? That’s where we found the other person, and find them still. The same eyes that were in the same head when we first met, slept together, married, honeymooned, joint-mortgaged, shopped, cooked and holidayed, loved one another and had a child together. And were the same when we separated.
But it’s not just the eyes. The bone structure stays the same, as do the instinctive gestures, the many ways of being herself. And her way, even after all this time and distance, of being with me.”
― The Sense of an Ending
Those peasanty frocks she used to wear have given way to cardigans and well-cut trousers. Some of the freckles I once loved are now closer to liver spots. But it’s still the eyes we look at, isn’t it? That’s where we found the other person, and find them still. The same eyes that were in the same head when we first met, slept together, married, honeymooned, joint-mortgaged, shopped, cooked and holidayed, loved one another and had a child together. And were the same when we separated.
But it’s not just the eyes. The bone structure stays the same, as do the instinctive gestures, the many ways of being herself. And her way, even after all this time and distance, of being with me.”
― The Sense of an Ending
“Quando comecei, achei que a coisa viria de forma espontânea, de um jato, semelhante a um transe. Tão grande era a minha necessidade de escrever que achei que a história se escreveria a si mesma. Mas as palavras até aqui vieram muito devagar. Mesmo nos melhores dias não fui capaz de escrever mais do que uma ou duas páginas. Pareço atormentado, assolado por alguma incapacidade mental de me concentrar no que estou fazendo. Vezes seguidas, vi meus pensamentos se desviarem do objeto à minha frente. Tão logo penso uma coisa, ela evoca uma outra, depois outra, até que há um acúmulo de detalhes tão denso que sinto que vou sufocar. Nunca antes estive tão consciente da fenda que separa pensar e escrever. Nos últimos dias, de fato, comecei a sentir que a história que tento contar é de algum modo incompatível com a linguagem, que o grau de sua resistência à linguagem dá a media exata do quanto me aproximei de dizer algo importante, e que quando chegar o momento de eu dizer a única coisa verdadeiramente importante (supondo que ela exista), não serei capaz de dizê-la.”
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