Source: The Lover's Dictionary
“There are things that happen and leave no discernible trace, are not spoken of or written of, though it would be wrong to say that subsequent events go on indifferently, all the same, as though such things had never been.”
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A. S. Byatt
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book
Possession
Postscript, Page 508.
Possession (1990)
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