"Frighten me? Yes, you do frighten me. You act as though we will be together forever. You act as though there is infinite pleasure and time without end. How can I know that? My experience has been that time always ends. In theory you are right, the quantam physicists are right, the romantics and relgious are right. Time without end. In practice we both wear a watch. If I rush at this relationships it's because I fear for it. I fear you have a door I cannot see and that at any minute now the door will open and you'll be gone. Then what? Then what as I bang the walls like the Inquisition searching for a saint? Where will I find the secret passage? For me, it'll just be the same four walls."
Written On the Body
by Jeanette Winterson