Don’t you just take the past and put it in a room, in the basement, and lock the door and never go in there? That’s what I do. And then you meet someone special, and all you want to do is toss them the key. Say, ‘open up, step inside’. But you can’t. Because it’s dark, and there are demons.
The Talented Mr Ripley
Well, yeah.
"I knew that to find and to feel Yoav again would be terribly painful, because of what had become of him, and because of what I knew he could ignite in me, a vitality that was excruciating because like a flare it lit up the emptiness inside me and exposed what I always secretly knew about myself: how much time I’d spent being only partly alive, and how easily I’d accepted a lesser life."
Nicole Krauss, Great House
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