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“Some things are too terrible to grasp at once. Other things - naked, spluttering, indelible in their horror - are too terrible to grasp at all. It is only later, in solitude, in memory that the realisation dawns: when the ashes are cold; when the mourners have departed; when one looks around and finds oneself - quite to one's surprise - in an entirely different world.” — Donna Tartt
Some things are too terrible to grasp at once. Other things - naked, spluttering, indelible in their horror - are too terrible to grasp at all. It is only later, in solitude, in memory that the realisation dawns: when the ashes are cold; when the mourners have departed; when one looks around and finds oneself - quite to one's surprise - in an entirely different world.