Roz

“This is how the entire course of a life can be changed: by doing nothing.”
― Ian McEwan, On Chesil Beach

“In the world I notice persons are nearly always stressed and have no time...I don't know how persons with jobs do the jobs and all the living as well...I guess the time gets spread very thin like butter all over the world, the roads and houses and playgrounds and stores, so there's only a little smear of time on each place, then everyone has to hurry on to the next bit.”
― Emma Donoghue, Room

“A woman growing like a goldfish to the size of her bowl, the only escape the final leap.”
― Lauren Groff, Fates and Furies

“travel [is] flight and pursuit in equal parts.”
― Paul Theroux, The Great Railway Bazaar: By Train Through Asia