Fran Littlewood > Quotes

“It’s as though her life has shot forward while she was looking the other way, and there’s a grief in it that wrenches her soul.”
― Fran Littlewood, Amazing Grace Adams

“But what Torschlusspanik is intended to describe is that anxious, claustrophobic feeling that avenues and opportunities are shutting down. The notion that you haven’t done very much with your life, that you’ve missed the boat, that you’ve left it too late. Probably the closest term we have in English is mid-life crisis.”
― Fran Littlewood, Amazing Grace Adams

“She’s not even close to knowing because time is playing tricks on her. There’s just the constant thrum of dread; the feeling she’s dropped something important along a roadside somewhere and she can’t find it.”
― Fran Littlewood, Amazing Grace Adams

“hüzün. It’s an enigmatic Turkish word that has an Arabic root and it describes a spiritual anguish. The gloomy feeling that everything is in decline and that the situation—often political in nature—will probably get gradually worse.”
― Fran Littlewood, Amazing Grace Adams

“Ume,”
― Fran Littlewood, Amazing Grace Adams

“Torschlusspanik is intended to describe is that anxious, claustrophobic feeling that avenues and opportunities are shutting down. The notion that you haven’t done very much with your life, that you’ve missed the boat, that you’ve left it too late. Probably the closest term we have in English is ‘midlife crisis’…”
― Fran Littlewood, Amazing Grace Adams

“This culture of tests and targets is out of control. Put in place by a bunch of people who’ve barely crossed the threshold of a classroom in the past thirty years.” He makes a face. “The kids are all under too much pressure, it’s no wonder we’re in the middle of a mental-health crisis.”
― Fran Littlewood, Amazing Grace Adams

“Grace”
― Fran Littlewood, Amazing Grace Adams