And yet it takes only the smallest pleasure or pain to teach us of time’s malleability. Some emotions speed it up, others slow it down; occasionally, it seems to go missing – until the eventual point when it really does go missing, never to return

And yet it takes only the smallest pleasure or pain to teach us of time’s malleability. Some emotions speed it up, others slow it down; occasionally, it seems to go missing – until the eventual point when it really does go missing, never to return (Julian Barnes, The Sense of an Ending)