The Inheritance of Loss

But he couldn't manage to keep this up.

He now pleaded directly with the judge: "We're friends, aren't we? Aren't we? Aren't we friends?"

"Time passes, things change," said the judge, feeling claustrophobia and embarrassment.

"But what is in the past remains unchanged, doesn't it?"

"I think it does change. The present changes the past. Looking back you do not find what you left behind, Bose."

-Kiran Desai