Suze Rotolo
This is a piercing and yet simple quote. We all know the adage that time heals, and we suppose it must, because everybody says so and we know that we must move on and get over things, have closure and all the rest.
This quote has you assuming that somebody else is reminding us of that, and that they have gleaned some sort of insight with the bit '...after all -".
And indeed they have, and it caught me when I read it. Yes yes, time heals, but there is no way of marking healing, or measuring it, or recognising when it has happened. The thing that time does with healing is not recognisable as time, it may take forever, but we don't and can't tell.
How can a clock without hands mark time? If it can't, then what is the point of suggesting 'time' heals?
I love the ambiguity it leaves you with.
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