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“Somewhere in the Andes, they believe to this very day that the future is behind you. It comes up from behind your back, surprising and unforeseeable, while the past is always before your eyes, that which has already happened. When they talk about the past, the people of the Aymara tribe point in front of them. You walk forward facing the past and you turn back toward the future.”
― Georgi Gospodinov, Time Shelter

“If you had to choose when, in the timeline of the earth, you got to live—wouldn’t you choose the end? You haven’t missed anything, then. You die in 1920, you miss rock and roll. You die in 1600, you miss Mozart. Right? I mean, the horrors pile up, too, but no one wants to die before the end of the story.”
― Rebecca Makkai, The Great Believers

“You could spend your whole life’, she said, ‘trying to trace events back to your own mistakes.”
― Rachel Cusk, Outline

“There should be a law passed to keep people like me from being alone with their thoughts for too long."

'Mona Rogers in Person”
― Philip-Dimitri Galas