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61 " I've heard it said that children born to stressful times never shake the air of woe . . . . "
― Kate Morton , The House at Riverton
62 " Love affairs, in their beginnings, are all about the present. But there is a point in each--an event, an exchange, some other unseen trigger--which forces the past and the future back into focus. "
63 " History was about to intervene: real adventure, real escape and adulthood were lurking, laughing, round the corner "
64 " It’s only with age I have learned solely to listen to things I want to hear. "
65 " ...time is the master of perspective. A dispassionate master, breathtakingly efficient. "
66 " But there is a difference between enjoying someone's company, thinking them attractive, and finding oneself helplessly in love. "
67 " Love is like that: insistent, sure, persuasive. It silences easily all whispers of misgiving. "
68 " time is the master of perspective. A dispassionate master, breathtakingly efficient. "
69 " My thoughts swim. Back and forth, in and out, across the tides of history "
70 " home is a magnet that lures back even its most abstracted children. "
71 " The Latter, I can tell, is added for my benefit. An assumption that the elderly cannot help but be impressed by the old fashioned. "
72 " Romance makes people forget themselves, do silly things "
73 " Why did Hannah marry Teddy? Not because she loved him, but because she was prepared to love him. "
74 " Pero, por supuesto, quienes viven en la memoria jamás están realmente muertos. "
75 " ...the wedding photographs were stained with black umbrellas. "
76 " It is a cruel, ironical art, photography. The dragging of captured moments into the future; moments that should have been allowed to evaporate with the past; should exist only in memories, glimpsed through the fog of events that came after. Photographs force us to see people before their future weighed them down, before they knew their endings. "
77 " My heart flutters a little. Or something inside my heart flutters; an artery worn so thin that a flap has come loose, is waving about, in the current of my blood. "
78 " Jo sóc a la freda sala d'espera del temps, titil·lant mentre els vells fantasmes i l'eco de les veus es van allunyant. "
79 " Les parets estaven cobertes d'un paper que una vegada devia haver estat de ratlles blaves i blanques, però que el temps i la humitat havien tornat d'un gris brut, amb taques i tires desenganxades. "
80 " Die Fotografie ist eine grausame Kunst. Sie zerrt eingefangene Momente in die Zukunft, Momente, die in der Vergangenheit haetten verpuffen sollen. Fotos zwingen uns, Menschen zu sehen, bevor sie ihr eigenes Ende kennen. "