No takers. Okay, I'll try and get us back to actually guessing with this one.
And a hint to start, although a strange hint perhaps, this is a Canadian author.
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Originally Posted by guessTheBook
Flirting with madness was one thing; when madness started flirting back, it was time to call the whole thing off.
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But nobody ever forgot anything, not really, though sometimes they pretended, when it suited them. Memories were permanent. Sorrowful ones remained sad even with the passing of time, yet happy ones could never be recreated - not with the same joy. Remembering bred its own peculiar sorrow. It seemed so unfair: that time should render both sadness and happiness into a source of pain.
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Originally Posted by guessThebook
After all, our lives are but a sequence of accidents - a clanking chain of chance events. A string of choices, casual or deliberate, which add up to that one big calamity we call life.
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