Sexy means loving someone you do not know. - Jhumpa Lahiri

There was the anxiety that one day would not follow the next, combined with the certainty that it would.

What was stored in memory was distinct from what was deliberately remembered,

"Try to remember it always," he said once Gogol had reached him, leading him slowly back across the breakwater, to where his mother and Sonia stood waiting. "Remember that you and I made this journey together to a place where there was nowhere left to go."