“She hadn't seen him in years, but everything that had ever passed between them - love and sex and rage and grief and anger and finally, horribly, indifference - was suddenly present, too. Surrounding them, ghosts. None of it ever goes away.”
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“I must have been assuming that without me there it would be all cobwebs and desolation.”
“I must tell her, but later, later, later, when it's all long finished and no longer an agony.”
“It's all someone else's secret.”
“She did not want to be as before. She wanted great changes in her life.”
“I went on seeing him, but it was like acting in some nightmarish play.”
“He felt removed from reality.”