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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

“I was happy in the library. Walls of printed pages, evidence of so many created worlds--this was a comfort to me.”
― Alice Munro

“Behind every beautiful thing, there's some kind of pain.”
― Bob Dylan

“I want you to be careful in this world. My heart is wrapped up in you.”
― Jeff Zentner, The Serpent King