But so far, the invisible line was holding, separating the potential from its realization. Strange, that invisible lines could be so powerful, thought Maneck--strong as brick walls.
("A Fine Balance")
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Hahnji, mister, you must be patient. Before you can name that corner, our future must become past.Rohinton Mistry
What an unreliable thing is time--when I want it to fly, the hours stick to me like glue. And what a changeable thing, too. Time is the twine to tie our lives into parcels of years and months. Or a rubber band stretched to suit our fancy. Time can be the pretty ribbon in a little girl's hair. Or the lines in your face, stealing your youthful colour and your hair. .... But in the end, time is a noose around the neck, strangling slowly.
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The Law is a grim, unsmiling thing. Not Justice, though. Justice is witty and whimsical and kind and caring.
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The carnage upon the chessboard of life, left wounded humans in its wake
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But nobody ever forgot anything, not really, though sometimes they pretended, when it suited them. Memories were permanent. Sorrowful ones remained sad even with the passing of time, yet happy ones could never be recreated - not with the same joy. Remembering bred its own peculiar sorrow. It seemed so unfair: that time should render both sadness and happiness into a source of pain.
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Flirting with madness was one thing; when madness started flirting back, it was time to call the whole thing off.
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