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“...at such moments of extreme panic and anguish you do manage that trick with time: you are at last free from the illusion that time is linear.

In panic, time stops: past, present and future exist as a single overwhelming force. You then, perversely, want time to appear to run forwards because the 'future' is the only place you can see an escape from this intolerable overload of feeling. But at such moments time doesn't move. And if time isn't running, then all events that we think of as past or future are actually happening simultaneously. That is the really terrifying thing. And you are subsumed. You're buried, as beneath an avalanche, by the weight of simultaneous events.”
― Sebastian Faulks, Engleby

“And now she began muttering to herself. "God , who created you, must have known what He did. Enough is enough.”
― Chinelo Okparanta, Under the Udala Trees

“At that time I could not imagine what would become of me, and I didn't care. It was not judgement day, but another morning.”
― Jeanette Winterson, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

“I want you always to remember me. Will you remember that I existed, and that I stood next to you here like this?”
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood