Harleen

“Had my life increased, or merely added to itself? There had been addition and subtraction in my life, but how much multiplication?”
― Julian Barnes, The Sense of an Ending

“We live with such easy assumptions, don't we? For instance, that memory equals events plus time. But it's all much odder than this. Who was it said that memory is what we thought we'd forgotten? And it ought to be obvious to us that time doesn't act as a fixative, rather as a solvent. But it's not convenient--- it's not useful--- to believe this; it doesn't help us get on with our lives; so we ignore it.”
― Julian Barnes, The Sense of an Ending

“And yet it takes only the smallest pleasure or pain to teach us time’s malleability.”
― Julian Barnes, The Sense of an Ending

“For you, a thousand times over”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner