Ellen Lancelot

“We are all stardust and stories.”
― Erin Morgenstern, The Starless Sea

“Each moment free from fear makes a man immortal.”
― Mary Renault, The Alexander Trilogy

“I thought: I cannot bear this world a moment longer. Then, child, make another.”
― Madeline Miller, Circe

“But people have no idea what time is. They think it’s a line, spinning out from three seconds behind them, then vanishing just as fast into the three seconds of fog just ahead. They can’t see that time is one spreading ring wrapped around another, outward and outward until the thinnest skin of Now depends for its being on the enormous mass of everything that has already died.”
― Richard Powers, The Overstory