li-prouvaire: Other things - naked, sputtering, indelible in their horror - are too terrible to real
li-prouvaire: Other things - naked, sputtering, indelible in their horror - are too terrible to really grasp ever at all.It is only later, in solitude, in memory that the realization 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, The Secret History -- source link