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Throughout the morning, he moves slowly and deliberately. There’s the heat to slow him down, but also a sense that rushing about will upset a fragile mental balance.
“All this unfolded in what I now know to call our last weeks. Within the action of this story, these memories mean little. After the first time Graham and I went to bed together, they are symbolically all of a piece. I could have written to you without including them; after all, the things that happen between lovers are lost to the work of history anyway. But I wrote it down because I need you to bear witness to it. He was here, by and with and in my body. He lives in me like trauma does. If you ever fall in love, you’ll be a person who was in love for the rest of your life.”
― The Ministry of Time
― The Ministry of Time
“I let her leave without saying goodbye and sat in the pool of silence that followed the crash of the front door slamming shut. This was one of my first lessons in how you make the future: moment by moment, you seal the doors of possibility behind you.”
― The Ministry of Time
― The Ministry of Time
“If you ever fall in love, you’ll be a person who was in love for the rest of your life.”
― The Ministry of Time
― The Ministry of Time
“The Sun will rise and set regardless. What we choose to do with the light while it's here is up to us. Journey wisely.”
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“I don’t mean to sound pessimistic. I only do because I can see how wrong my choices were. Don’t do it like this. Don’t enter believing yourself a node in a grand undertaking, that your past and your trauma will define your future, that individuals don’t matter. The most radical thing I ever did was love him, and I wasn’t even the first person in this story to do that. But you can get it right, if you try. You will have hope, and you have been forgiven. Forgiveness, which takes you back to the person you were and lets you reset them. Hope, which exists in a future in which you are new. Forgiveness and hope are miracles. They let you change your life. They are time-travel.”
― The Ministry of Time
― The Ministry of Time
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