"The memories of long love gather like drifting snow, poignant as the mandarin ducks who float side by side in sleep."

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No shame in saying that I felt a loneliness drifting through me. Funny how it was, everyone perched in their own little world with the deep need to talk, each person with their own tale, beginning in some strange middle point, then trying so hard to tell it all, to have it all make sense, logical and final.

— Colum McCann