Remember it always. Remember that you and I made this journey and went together to a place where there was nowhere left to go. - Jhumpa Lahiri

I owed the greater apology, but at the same time I knew that was done was done, that no matter what I said now I would never be able to make it right.

Books come to stand for various episodes in our lives, for certain idealisms, follies of belief, moments of love. Along the way they accumulate our marks, our stains, our innocent abuses—they come to wear our experience of them on their covers and bindings like wrinkles on our skin.

That's the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet.