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41 " ...These two images put together explain why men find women so threatening . The world comes out of your body and...' (he was waving the Mona Lisa at me) 'we have no idea what's in your head. Do you know how frightening that is? "
― Jeanette Winterson , The Gap of Time
42 " She looked at me. There was a second the kind that holds the whole world ... "
43 " What is memory anyway but a painful dispute with the past? "
44 " Isn't there always a history to the story? You think you're living in the present, but the past is right behind you like a shadow. "
45 " Neither parent spoke. Milo stood between them like a lighthouse between the rocks and the shipwreck. "
46 " Maybe then I will remember that, although history repeats itself and we always fall, and I am a carrier of history whose brief excursion into time leaves no mark, I have known something worth knowing, wild and unlikely and against every rote. "
47 " There are thirteen moons every calendar year.They measure time differently on the moon.The moon orbits the earth once every 28 daysAs though she's looking for something she lost.A long time ago. "
48 " I tried not to marry you because neither of us have a happy-ever-after story written inside us. "
49 " Free will depends on being stronger than the moment that traps you. "
50 " And the world goes on regardless of joy or despair or one woman’s fortune or one man’s loss. And we can’t know the lives of others. And we can’t know our own lives beyond the details we can manage. And the things that change us forever happen without us knowing they would happen. And the moment that looks like the rest is the one where hearts are broken or healed. And time that runs so steady and sure runs wild outside of the clocks. It takes so little time to change a lifetime and it takes a lifetime to understand the change. "