In Us And Not Behind Us

Time. . .comes and goes in waves and folds, like water. It flutters and sifts like dust; rises, billows, falls back on itself. When a wave breaks the water is not moving; the swell has travelled great distances but only the energy is moving, not the water. Perhaps time moves through us and not us through it. . . . the past is in us and not behind us. Things are never over.

Tim Winton The Turning