A.S. Byatt Quote
Randolph Henry Ash: What is it? My dear?Christabel LaMotte: Ah, how can we bear it?Randolph Henry Ash: Bear what?Christabel LaMotte: This. For so short a time. How can we sleep this time away?Randolph Henry Ash: We can be quiet together, and pretend – since it is only the beginning – that we have all the time in the world.Christabel LaMotte: And every day we shall have less. And then none.Randolph Henry Ash: Would you rather, therefore, have had nothing at all?Christabel LaMotte: No. This is where I have always been coming to. Since my time began. And when I go away from here, this will be the mid-point, to which everything ran, before, and from which everything will run. But now, my love, we are here, we are now, and those other times are running elsewhere.
Randolph Henry Ash: What is it? My dear?Christabel LaMotte: Ah, how can we bear it?Randolph Henry Ash: Bear what?Christabel LaMotte: This. For so short a time. How can we sleep this time away?Randolph Henry Ash: We can be quiet together, and pretend – since it is only the beginning – that we have all the time in the world.Christabel LaMotte: And every day we shall have less. And then none.Randolph Henry Ash: Would you rather, therefore, have had nothing at all?Christabel LaMotte: No. This is where I have always been coming to. Since my time began. And when I go away from here, this will be the mid-point, to which everything ran, before, and from which everything will run. But now, my love, we are here, we are now, and those other times are running elsewhere.
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