It's funny isn't it, how everything's changing all time. Nothing stays still.
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Julia GreenSome things get lost others return. That is how it is: the way of things.
Julia GreenYou're not really in control, not with this falling-for-people stuff. You don't plan who you're going to fall in love with. It's all random - chance accidents of time and place.
Julia GreenThat's what memory is like: layers, one overlapping another, and compacting down the way old leaves slowly crumble and turn to a rich peaty soil, nourishing the new things that will grow. It's why it's important, remembering things. It's why it matters, when the memories aren't there, and no one fills in the gaps for you.
Julia GreenWhat i realise now is that the story actually did have a happy ending: the children came back. In spite of everything the adults did to them, the children found their own way home, their pockets full of precious stones and pearls that gleamed and shone in the light.
Julia GreenTags: life love hope forgiveness second-chances
But you still need the two: the dark and the light. You can't see one without the other.
Julia GreenWe have to find our own way to live, and to love. Don't ever let anyone else tell you how it should be for you.
Julia GreenLying in their field above the sea, watching the sun go down and the darkness creep over the field so that they were wrapped together in shadow. Will propped himself on one elbow beside her, is finger curling strands of her dark hair until it was bound so tight it pulled her scalp and she cried out, and then he bent over her, kissed her, so,so tenderly, and she thought she would die with happiness. They had made love, the very first time.
Julia GreenThere are lots of different ways grown-ups disappear. It's lonely being the one left behind.
Julia GreenTags: life loneliness
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