“All of it was there but nothing had substance. It was as if they were all shadows, as if her leaving had taken the life out of the living things and left them shadows. he himself was a shadow.he felt no weight in his step, ,no sound to his voice, no solidity to his gestures. he forgot time. he felt the ache of a pain whose depth he could not fathom no whose end anticipate” ChangeHeartbreakLifelessness Book:Salt Source: Salt
“then suddenly one day he awake to find that time had gone; the house completed, the imortelle tree cut down, his mother dead.” TimeChangeTime FliesSudden ChangesOver Time Author:Earl Lovelace