"Although we strap time to our wrists, stuff it into our pockets, hang it on our walls, a perpetually moving picture for every room of the house, it can still run away, elude and evade, and show itself again only when there are minutes remaining and there is nothing left to do except wait till there are none."

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Source : Monique Truong (2004). “The Book of Salt: A Novel”, p.100, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Monique Truong

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