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“goes on like this and we can’t compensate for the things that get lost, the island will soon be nothing but absences and holes, and when it’s completely hollowed out, we’ll all disappear without a trace. Don’t you ever feel that way?”
― Yōko Ogawa, The Memory Police

“Hence, foundering halfway between the abyss and the peak, they drifted rather than lived, given up to aimless days and sterile memories, wandering shadows who could only have found strength by resigning themselves to taking root in the soil of their distress.”
― Albert Camus, The Plague

“Time is a great healer. It just flows on all of its own accord.”
― Yōko Ogawa, The Memory Police

“Yours' like 'Later!', had an off-the-cuff, unceremonious, 'here, catch' quality that reminded me how twisted and secretive my desires were compared to the expansive spontaneity of everything about him.”
― André Aciman, Call Me By Your Name