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I keep thinking about this river somewhere, with the water moving really fast. And these two people in the water, trying to hold onto each other, holding on as hard as they can, but in the end it's just too much. The current's too strong. They've got to let go, drift apart. That's how it is with us. It's a shame, Kath, because we've loved each other all our lives. But in the end, we can't stay together forever.
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It was like when you make a move in chess and just as you take your finger off the piece, you see the mistake you've made, and there's this panic because you don't know yet the scale of disaster you've left yourself open to.
You say you’re sure? Sure that you’re in love? How can you know it? You think love is so simple?
As a writer, I'm more interested in what people tell themselves happened rather than what actually happened.
There was another life that I might have had, but I am having this one.
I can't even say I made my own mistakes. Really - one has to ask oneself - what dignity is there in that?
Poor creatures. What did we do to you? With all our schemes and plans?
She always wanted to believe in things.
The evening's the best part of the day. You've done your day's work. Now you can put your feet up and enjoy it.
We took away your art because we thought it would reveal your souls. Or to put it more finely, we did it to prove you had souls at all.
After all, what can we ever gain in forever looking back and blaming ourselves if our lives have not turned out quite as we might have wished?
