Yvonne Vera - Time is as necessary for remembering as it is for forgetting. Even the smal

Time is as necessary for remembering as it is for forgetting. Even the smallest embrace of pain needs time larger than a pause; the greatest pause requires an eternity, the greatest hurt a lifetime. A lifetime is longer than eternity: an eternity can exist without human presence.

- Yvonne Vera

source: Yvonne Vera (2004). “The Stone Virgins: A Novel”, p.36, Macmillan

topic: Hurt, Pain, Needs