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Book: The Gap of Time
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Jeanette Winterson _ The Gap of Time
There are thirteen moons every calendar year.They measure time differently on the moon.The moon orbits the earth once every 28 daysAs though she's looking for something she lost.A long time ago."
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Jeanette Winterson _ The Gap of Time
...and what is memory but a rope slung across time?"
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Jeanette Winterson _ The Gap of Time
... sometimes you have to accept that your heart knows what to do
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Jeanette Winterson _ The Gap of Time
Moon's gravitational pull means that earth doesn't wobble too much. Scientists call it obliquity. The moon holds us fast.
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Jeanette Winterson _ The Gap of Time
She wanted to kiss the hesitation of his throat.
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Jeanette Winterson _ The Gap of Time
And you and me in the car where we've always been, where we'll always be, this night, this road, even when we're gone and the road is gone and the city is gone but we'll be here because everything is imprinted forever with what it once was.
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Jeanette Winterson _ The Gap of Time
Zel so often put himself outside of where he wanted to be and then looked in dumbly through the window of his longing, hurt and beaten and knowing that he had hurt and beaten himself but still he did it, over and over.
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Jeanette Winterson _ The Gap of Time
She had been a career woman all her life. She noted there was no such thing as a career man. She had made her choices. No regrets, But there were losses. There always were.
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Jeanette Winterson _ The Gap of Time
What is a memory anyway but a painful dispute with the past?
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Jeanette Winterson _ The Gap of Time
En de tijd die zo gestaag en zo zeker voorbijgaat slaat voorbij de klokken op hol. Het kost zo weinig tijd om een leven te veranderen en het kost een heel leven om die verandering te begrijpen."
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Jeanette Winterson _ The Gap of Time
Sometimes it doesn't matter that there was any time before this time. Sometimes it doesn't matter that it's night or day or now or then. Sometimes where you are is enough. It's not that time stops or that it hasn't started. This is time. You are here. This caught moment opening into a lifetime.
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Jeanette Winterson _ The Gap of Time
The missingness of the missing. We know what that feels like. Every endeavor, every kiss, every stab in the heart, every letter home, every leaving, is a ransack of what's in front of us in the service of what's lost.
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