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“Sometimes you think you know someone, but maybe it’s impossible to really know everything about a person, even someone you love. Maybe good people—the very best people—are just better at keeping secrets.”
“I’ve never become swept away by magic,” he said. “Maybe that’s for the best,” she replied. “It seems safer than simply giving yourself over to your passions. I know people who have done that. I’m not sure it turns out well in the end.”
“When will I see you again?” Clara asked with flirtatious confidence, but he recognized it for what it was—desperation—and regretted how he was the cause of her unhappiness.
“I’m just not charmed by charm alone. It’s something altogether different that appeals to me.”
“But you know what they say—the truth always comes out.” “Not always,” April replied. “People only say that because they know about the times when it did. But what about all the secrets in the history of the world that never saw the light of day? No one knows about those.
Numb with disbelief and depression, I could do nothing but lie in a motionless heap, staring at the wall.
They were leaving? I didn’t know them at all, and I had no reason to dislike them, but I wouldn’t be sorry to see them go.
But life happens the way it happens, and there’s no point wishing the past was any different. It will always be what it was, and there’s not a damn thing we can do about
