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“There's no point in wishing. We can't change anything about the past. We can only remember. We can only move forward.”
― The Astonishing Color of After
― The Astonishing Color of After
“Memory is a mean thing, slicing at you from the harshest angles, dipping your consciousness into the wrong colors again and again. A moment of humiliation, or devastation, or absolute rage, to be rewound and replayed, spinning a thread that wraps around the brain, knotting itself into something of a noose. It won't exactly kill you, but it makes you feel the squeeze of every horrible moment. How do you stop it? How do you work the mind free?”
― The Astonishing Color of After
― The Astonishing Color of After
“My mother's dying soaked down through the carpet, through the wood. When it was done with the bedroom, it took over our house, and then it moved on to me. It soaked through my hair and skin and bone, through my skull and deep into my brain. Now it's staining everything, leaking the blackest black into the rest of the world.”
― The Astonishing Color of After
― The Astonishing Color of After
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