Holden on secrets

“It’s like the childhood toy you wanted to preserve in hopes you will find it ten years down the road and when you do find it, you’ll realise that the toy you had hoped would remain as a fragment of your childhood is sitting awkwardly in the present and has become too tangible to fit back into the past.

Or it’s like the new toy that you’ve recently acquired and that you never want to give to anyone to play with because they could lose or damage it, or they could understand it as well as or more than you do and you no longer have that special bond with it.”