“We can ask and ask but we can't have again what once seemed ours forever—the way things looked, that church alone in the fields, a bed on a belfry floor, a remembered voice, the touch of a hand, a loved face. They've gone and you can only wait for the pain to pass. All this happened so long ago. And I never returned, never wrote, never met anyone who might have given me news of Oxgody. So, in memory, it stays as I left it, a sealed room furnished by the past, airless, still, ink long dry on a put-down pen. But this was something I knew nothing of as I closed the gate and set off across the meadow.” GoneRegretSadMetaphorThe PastEndingLast LinesA Month In The CountryJ L CarrUnrecoverable Book:A Month in the Country Source: A Month in the Country
“By nature we are creatures of hope, always ready to be deceived again, caught by the marvel that might be wrapped in the grubbiest brown paper parcel.” HopeMetaphorA Month In The CountryJ L Carr Book:A Month in the Country Source: A Month in the Country