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“After years of living in response to the past, we had somehow miraculously become unstuck, moving forward in time”
― Ann Patchett, The Dutch House

“How strange a thing it was to be here, animate and conscious, on this ball of mud and brine as it whirled through the illimitable depths of space.”
― John Banville, Snow

“Tilda cared nothing for the future, and had, as a result, a great capacity for happiness.”
― Penelope Fitzgerald, Offshore

“Mothers were the measure of safety, which meant that I was safer than Maeve. After our mother left, Maeve took up the job on my behalf but no one did the same for her.”
― Ann Patchett, The Dutch House