Kate added a quote:
"The tectonic layers of our lives rest so tightly one on top of the other that we always come up against earlier events in later ones, not as matter that has been fuly formed and pushed aside, but absolutely present and alive. I understand this. Nonetheless, I sometimes find it hard to bear." — Bernard Schlink

Kate added a quote:
"Why does what was beautiful suddenly shatter in hindsight because it concealed dark truths? Because such a situation makes it impossible to be happy? But we were happy! Sometimes the memory of happiness cannot stay true because it ended unhappily. Because happiness is only real if it lasts forever? Because things always end painfully if they contained pain, conscious or unconscious all along?" — Bernhard Schlink